The Legend of Pale Male

Name: The Legend of Pale Male
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 24, 2010
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 51

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Balcony Releasing | Release Date: November 24, 2010

Summary: This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Little does heThis is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Little does he know that the journey will take him almost twenty years and lead him down many trails of life, death, birth, hope, and redemption. (Balcony Releasing) … Expand

Director: Frederic Lilien

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 85 min

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Walter Addiego

Dec 11, 2010

This is compelling stuff, but Lilien is less successful in trying to link Pale Male's story to his own. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Nov 25, 2010

Family-friendly holiday fare. Read full review

Ty Burr

Dec 21, 2010

It's notable for some astounding urban wildlife footage and for the way it unintentionally reflects the giddy narcissism of the primate known as homo sapiens. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Nov 25, 2010

A sugary, aggressively anthropomorphized story of one avian interloper and a whole bunch of human obsessives. Read full review

Nick Schager

Nov 25, 2010

Despite spending nearly 15 years documenting this phenomenon, Lilien proves wholly uninterested in investigating his human subjects' habit of vigorously anthropomorphizing, and projecting their personal hopes, dreams, fears, and Daddy issues onto the striking hawk. Read full review

John DeFore

Nov 25, 2010

Remains mostly fascinating even in an amateur storyteller's hands. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Nov 27, 2010

Lilien is an amateur filmmaker, and his movie -- which at times is more about Lilien than Pale Male -- shows it. Read full review

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