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Tharlo(ཐར་ལོ།)

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China · 2015
2h 3m
Director Pema Tseden
Starring Shide Nyima, Yangshik Tso, Jinpa, Tsemdo Thar
Genre Drama

Tharlo is an orphan who scrapes by on a meagre living as a sheep herder in the village. On a trip to town, he meets a girl who changes the course of his life and, in order to be with her, he sells all his sheep and those entrusted to him by the other villagers.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

The glacially paced film is ultimately more interesting for its ethnographic and technical aspects than its rudimentary storyline, although the marvelous deadpan performance by Nyima, an acclaimed Tibetan theater performer, provides a much-needed humanistic quality.

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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

Tharlo instead opts for fleeting charm and shaggy humanism, until the narrative takes a grim turn that’s both trite and sexist. The bottom drops out of the movie, leaving its interest almost exclusively ethnographic.

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Total Film by Kevin Harley

Torn between mountains and karaoke bars, Tharlo looks as lost as his lamb: a parallel delicately developed in this warm, wise fable of uncertainty.

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