On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who's slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parent... (Full plot summary below)
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On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who's slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa's later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa's dreams? What about the other lambs?
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI swear to you that if you live in a place where this film is playing, it is the best film in town. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Sukhdev SandhuA gorgeously-shot and often-funny story... An absolute treat. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIf you surrender to its pace, Tulpan can be intoxicating; it's like nothing else in theaters. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIn the tradition of ethnographic dramas from "Nanook of the North" to "The Fast Runner," Tulpan drops us in the middle of a godforsaken nowhere and marvels at the people who live there. |
| Metromix.comMatt PaisAchieves a documentary-level realism that is nothing short of amazing. |
| Washington PostDan KoisTo certain serious world-cinema aficionados, though, Tulpan's combination of understated comedy and documentary-level depiction of rural Kazakh life will be catnip. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe filmmaker's documentary training pays off in detail after detail. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottMight be described as an epic landscape film, a sweetly comic coming-of-age story or a lyrical work of social realism. But the setting -- a windswept, sparely populated steppe in southern Kazakhstan -- gives the movie a mood that sometimes feels closer to that of science fiction. |
| Slant MagazineDavid PhelpsA folk tale disguised as a documentary, Sergei Dvortsevoy's Tulpan appears something like actual reality, half-planned and half-found. |
| european-films.netBoyd van HoeijThe details of the exotic trappings on display may be relatively new but the rites-of-passage story is as old as civilisation itself in Tulpan, a timeless and endearing coming-of-age tale for the Story of the Weeping Camel crowd. |
