NR | 1h 36min | Documentary | 24 June 2022 (USA)
The opening scene in director Sean Cisterna’s new documentary “The Long Rider” shows narrator and co-photographer Filipe Masetti Leite atop one of his three horses heading towards a stadium on the distant Brazilian horizon.
Filipe Masetti Leite at a stop in “The Long Rider.” (Prime Video)
He’s wearing an ornate, rodeo-inspired shirt, and delivering a tear-tinged, carefully-worded monologue telling us that he’s nearing the end of a multi-year-long journey.
Leite doesn’t tell us where this trek started, and it really doesn’t matter as he’s informing us he has reached his desired destination in one piece. In the space of three minutes, co-producers Cisterna and Leite have all but spoiled what we’ll be seeing over the next 90….