The Horse in Focus

The 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne Australia, but due to their animal quarantine laws (the same ones that were to get Johnny Depp in trouble decades later) the equestrian events could not be held there. So a mini Olympics featuring just the events involving horses were held months earlier in Stockholm. This short Swedish film is the document of those events. I suppose it is theoretically possible to make an interesting movie about equestrian sports, but this isn't that movie. The main problem with it is that the narrator talks non-stop through it. If the viewer can understand Swedish, this might not me a problem, but for everyone else, it means non-stop subtitles, which make it hard to ever take in the visuals. Snippets of the events are presented but they are so brief that it is hard to feel engaged with anything that is happening.