Monday, 6 May 2024

The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003 Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni)

Mongolia, the Gobi Desert. An extended family has to deal with a troublesome camel who rejects its newly born colt. Strangely fascinating, absorbing and entertaining film left me laughing.

Whether or not some of it is an artful editing construct is irrelevant.


No you can't have a TV!

And why not? "Because you'll spend all day watching the glass images - and that's no good, is it?"

A German financed film.

The way the people - especially the mother - handle the animals is sweet, and the violin sequence, beginning with the wind playing the strings, like an Aeolian Harp, is far out.

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