Alicia I love this movie so much

Micitype Pretty Good

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

ccthemovieman-1 The film, set in a remote Himalayan village in Nepal, is gorgeous start-to-finish, a labor of love by those who made it over a long period of time. The cinematography gets a lot of good "press," and rightfully so, but what I really enjoyed was the soundtrack. I expected the good visuals, and got them, but I didn't expect such wonderful music.As for the look, it's different, with rugged barren mountain village terrain and snow-topped Himalayas in background, although we don't enjoy those until almost 50 minutes into the film.What's really different, however is the fact the film employed no professional actors. These were real people of that area! They also faces you won't soon forget.As for the story, the treks don't begin until 45 minutes has gone by in the film. You have to be patient. Much of that first part, people argue back and forth on the merits of making the trip and who would and should be going. Finally, we wind up with two separate camps: the younger guy "Karma" and his crowd and the older man, "Tinle," who takes his son, grandchild and his mother,and mainly older friends of the stubborn old coot of a leader.Old man Tinle does nothing but bitch and moan most of the movie but people do their share of complaining to him, too. Yet, I found nobody unlikable for some strange reason. Most of the time, nobody in this village appears happy. These people must love to argue!As one man say, speaking of Tinle: "Trying to talk to him is like trying to stop the snow from falling."I liked the following: when asked why he changed his mind about going on the trip with Tinle, his son and lama-artist "Norbou,"" told his father, "After you left the monastery, I remembered what one of my masters said: "when two paths open up before you, always take the hard one."I also thought the yaks were fascinating. . I'd like to know more about them after watching this movie.Overall, it's a dramatic and touching adventure story. that will reward you if you can hang with it for first three-quarters of an hour. It also will make you grateful you weren't born in this part of the country.

Jessica Carvalho ''Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef'' is the second movie I watched with Lhakpa Tsamchoe, an excellent actress who I saw for the first time in ''Seven Years in Tibet''. I discovered here in IMDb that she only worked in these two movies in her life, and that she is not actually an actress, as everyone else who acts in this movie are not actors. This is very surprising, because all their emotions and the scenes really looks made by professionals! 'Himalaya'' is a french production, in which the big interest is to show some of the Tibetan traditions that are disappearing in their culture. This movie also received an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Film, and it really deserved it. Showing the stubborn and proud Tinle,who refuses to let Karma, his son's friend, to become the new chief,suspecting that he killed his son. Tinle is old, but anyway he organizes another caravan to take the salt to trade for grains and food. But their trip will not be fast and many difficulties will be in their way...

kef In order to get the DVD of Himalaya I have to order it from the USA - it's not available in the UK (presumably something to do with our imperialist past). I saw the film three or four years ago and some of the images still live with me. Immediately after seeing it I was enthusiastically recommending it to friends all of whom asked about the plot. It felt somehow inadequate to reply that it's a story about a dispute between two Tibetan yak-herders. All I know is that it's one of the few films I actively want to see again. Not necessarily because of the plot, which is serviceable, or even the acting, which is fresh and vibrant, but it's a wonderful feast for the eye with some of the most compelling images I have ever seen.

roman-15 I had the privilege of seeing this film in a theater. Thus the magnificent panoramas and astounding beauty of the mountains and people can be fully appreciated. The movie is about the essential trek in life: about the passing of the torch from one generation to another. It revolves about the essential aspects of life, and also of its circular nature (the past is always related to the present and future). What is truly awesome is the magnificent level of acting that the Director obtained from true mountain people.All of the film is awesome, but the journey on the path by the border of the lake is a high point in the film.Coming from a mountain country myself, and also enjoying trekking, I found many parallels between the quest of these Nepalese and the quality of people I find up in the high Andes. No doubt there's more wisdom as regards life from the people many consider "backward" as opposed to those we feel are "civilized". Not to be missed.