Ended on 4/24/2008
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TUYA'S MARRIAGE -
(unrated)
2007 - China - Mandarin Chinese (with English subtitles) - 96 minutes - Music Box Films
Directed by: Wang Quan An
Featuring: Yu Nan, Bater, Sen'ge, Zhaya
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 Set in the remote inner Mongolian grassland, TUYA’S MARRIAGE - winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and Best Actress Award at the Chicago International Film Festival - is the moving tale of Tuya (YU Nan,) the iron-willed and beautiful wife of Bater, an injured herdsman. Tuya takes up the sole responsibility of making a living for her family, but her hard labor jeopardizes her health. So his wife can seek a better life, Bater persuades Tuya to divorce him and meet a new man to care for her. Imposing her own conditions - her new spouse will not only have to take care of her and her children, but also of Bater and their herding land - the strong-minded and stubborn Tuya embarks on a challenging and at times unintentionally comic search for a new husband in this Mongolian design for living. Wrenching and beautiful, TUYA’S MARRIAGE is the indelible portrait of a strong woman determined to save her family, herself and their ancient way of life.
“Critics Pick”
Stephen Holden, The New York Times
“From the barren, beautiful landscape of the Inner Mongolian steppes comes this unlikely, passionate love story, a compact near-masterpiece that combines a slow-motion romantic comedy with a docudrama-style portrait of a remote, nomadic culture as it is eroded by the tides of
the 21st century.”
Andrew O’Hehir
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Users Comments
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by : D.D.P |
Date Added: 4/25/2008 9:26:16 PM  report this post |
Despite how all the characters are speaking Chinese, which is very much stretched from reality, the film rather successfully attempted to explain the Mongolian life with a moving story. The looping time line seems to be an indication that the film tries to explore beyond what happens at Mongolian weddings and parties, which usually end with a fight or two. It seemed to me that the Chinese mainstream is particularly fascinated by the cultural significance of music in South (a.k.a. Inner) Mongolia. This film presents the Mongolian scene of generously catered social gatherings and difficult everyday life in stark contrast, which then helps explain the necessity for people to express their buried emotional agony. Aside from financial hardships, South Mongolians today all live with burdens, traumatic memory from the historic and political turmoils of the past century. This may explain the proliferation of alcoholism in the region. As the characters clearly show, when the caring spirits of the sky and the earth are far away, nothing seems to numb the pain aside from wine.
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by : WEEPING CAMEL |
Date Added: 8/4/2008 2:49:48 PMreport this post |
GREAT FLICK
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