Volvoreta
Alberto Yaccelini
2002 - 58 min - Digital vidéo - Couleur - France

Volvoreta is a three year old filly, champion at galloping, a future champion. She has the ability to haul herself up to the pinnacle of the hierarchy in races like the Prix de Diane, the Arc de Triomphe or the Prix Vermeil.
Her trainer is Carlos Lerner, who arrived as a young man from Argentina twenty years ago. A modest stable in Maisons-Laffitte. His horses ? Honest working horses who have kept the place going. And then, there was Volvoreta ! A hope for the little one to haul himself up among the big ones. Between the trainer and the mare, more than work. Alberto Yaccelini followed Carlos Lerner over the last days that preceded the famous Prix de Diane 2000, the race in which anything became possible for the Argentinian trainer. The camera of the director, also Argentinian, became an intimate accomplice to film the silent dialogue between man and beast.
A fortnight in the wings of the training of a top level athlete. A fortnight for a turn in the life of the trainer.