- Composed by John Williams
- Sony Classical / 2011 / 65:31
Steven Spielberg’s War Horse adapts Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel about the story of a horse’s experience during the Great War. The film follows the horse from his birth in Devon to his work on both sides of the conflict. The film has genuinely mixed reviews – most films labelled as having mixed reviews actually have a whole bunch which think it’s average, but this one seems to either be loved or hated. There’s clearly an inherent problem of a film whose central character is a horse – and whose director wants to build a genuine emotional connection between said horse and the audience – but for large numbers of cinemagoers this was a problem avoided and almost every review is agreed that on a technical level, the film is beyond reproach.
