Author: Steven Neish
With the old-fashioned Western having long since ridden off into the proverbial sunset a new day is at last dawning on the genre in the east, and films as diverse as The Rover, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Theeb have wasted little time in exploring this fruitful new frontier. Now there’s another stranger in town, with Zhang Yang transplanting the familiar tropes to Tibet where he lets them intermingle with far less familiar traditions, in cinematic terms at least. Despite the director’s Chinese nationality, which in some quarters might be cause for some controversy amid cries of cultural appropriation, Soul on a String feels richly textured and credibly drawn. It is, after all, co-written by Tibet-born Tashi Dawa and performed entirely in Tibetan.
Soul on a String follows vagrant renegade Tabei (Kimba) on a redemptive pilgrimage to Palm Print Mountain, on a...
With the old-fashioned Western having long since ridden off into the proverbial sunset a new day is at last dawning on the genre in the east, and films as diverse as The Rover, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Theeb have wasted little time in exploring this fruitful new frontier. Now there’s another stranger in town, with Zhang Yang transplanting the familiar tropes to Tibet where he lets them intermingle with far less familiar traditions, in cinematic terms at least. Despite the director’s Chinese nationality, which in some quarters might be cause for some controversy amid cries of cultural appropriation, Soul on a String feels richly textured and credibly drawn. It is, after all, co-written by Tibet-born Tashi Dawa and performed entirely in Tibetan.
Soul on a String follows vagrant renegade Tabei (Kimba) on a redemptive pilgrimage to Palm Print Mountain, on a...
- 3/1/2017
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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