Fresh
It offers the most awesomely plausible account of Tibetan life and culture ever seen in the west. It's one of the few films whose images show you things you've never seen before.
Derek Adams, Time Out
The Horse Thief
1986 · 1h 28m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Pan Peicheng
,
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Overview
Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter.
Director and cast
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Tomatometer
Fresh
The film's tribal drama of theft, ostracism and terrible retribution unfolds, although the director, Tian Zhuangzhuang (an iconoclastic graduate of the Beijing Film Academy), uses few conventional means of bringing these dramatic events to the forefront.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Tian had said that he made this for the 21st century, yet even today it's a film of the future.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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