This movie abandons traditional narrative structure and, instead, seems to read like a visual interpretation of a poem. Characters come and go, strain within the most tenuous of relationships, questions remain unanswered, and dialogue is spare to see the least. With each character sketched more so than developed, I can understand the hostile reaction of most reviews here. But 'The Wanting Mare' is a consistently beautiful and gentle experience and, if a western visual education can be abandoned, there is much with which to be rewarded.