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  • Tulpan: More National Geographic than Entertainment

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Mar 12, 2010
    Pros: Cinematography of distant landscape
    Cons: Slow paced, insufficient dialogue or drama

    Summary: Tulpan (2008) It’s not very often that I’ll view a critically acclaimed piece of neorealist, international cinema and come out of it feeling disappointed, but such was the case with “Tulpan.” The critics universally ... read more

  • Call it comedy, call it drama, call it great

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Dec 21, 2009
    Pros: cinematography, performances, directing
    Cons: none

    Summary: *this review contains minor spoilersA young man named Asa (Askhat Kuchinchirekov), discharged from the Russian Navy, comes to Kazakhstan to live with his pretty sister, Samal (Samal Yeslyamova), and her family. They live in a hut set in the ... read more

  • A romantic comedy among scraggly sheep on the Hungersteppe

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Dec 5, 2009
    Pros: ethnographic authenticity, humor, Ondasyn Besikasov
    Cons: slow starting

    Summary: The first fiction film written and directed by documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy,"Tulpan"  (2008), serves up everyday life in an exceedingly remote location. It was shot on a very barren southern Kazhakstan steppe (aptly named Hungersteppe, officially ... read more

  • Quietly moving, starkly beautiful and utterly unique

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Sep 29, 2009
    Pros: Immersion in a completely unfamiliar world.
    Cons: Slow pace COULD be off-putting.

    Summary: I was very fortunate to be able to see TULPAN at a small movie theatre (rather than DVD) so that I could enjoy it with a few dozen other folks.  But it will play just as well on a wide-screen TV (the bigger the better, though)…because it is ... read more

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