2008 · drama · comedy
Tulpan
Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy1h 40m2008
Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must first win the hand of the only eligible girl for miles—his mysterious neighbor, Tulpan.
Our read: Tulpan (2008) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- intimate
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How Tulpan feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want patient immersion in harsh steppe life and small human hopes.”
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