Savoy Theater
Kazakh filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy won the Prix Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this, his first dramatic feature. As comic and poignant as it is awe-inspiring, TULPAN is set in the vast emptiness of southern Kazakhstan’s Hunger Steppe. Having completed his military service, a young nomad named Asa returns home to his brother-in-law’s yurt with hopes of becoming a shepherd. But is such a life any longer possible in the modern world? First, Asa must win the affections of his beautiful neighbor, Tulpan. Dvortsevoy gives us the bleak beauty of the steppe’s windswept landscape: the endless sky, the camel stampedes, the raucous behavior of a reggae-loving teamster, and one of the most remarkable animal birth scenes ever captured on film. 100 minutes, in Kazakh and Russian with subtitles. Community Partner: Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Review
- Friday, March 20 8:30 pm
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- Sunday, March 22 2:30 pm
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