Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

SnoopyStyle A family of nomadic herdsmen lives traditionally in South Mongolia. The last calf born to their camel herd is especially difficult. The colt is white and rejected by his mother. The family sends the two young sons to find a musician who could coax the mother back to her offspring.This is an interesting slice of a traditional lifestyle. The movie starts with no tension. It's questionable what the story is about for a long stretch in the beginning. There is also the question of how real the story is. This feels like a fable trying to be a documentary. It's not my preference but it's not a major problem. It's fascinating but ultimately the style lacks any tension.

ccthemovieman-1 Overall, this may not be that memorable a film, but one scene certainly is one I doubt you'll ever forget. I mean, how many of us have seen a camel give birth? Not only that, but labor for two days to get the young "colt" out, and then do it standing up? It's a very dramatic, intense five-minute scene, one I won't soon forget.For most of this film, however, not much happens yet it does have a certain appeal. I had read how fantastic the scenery was but, outside of the snow-capped mountains in the background, the terrain is flat and totally bleak. Living in this vast desert is almost depressing. Imagine living in that barren land year after year? For the family featured in this film, it didn't seem bad. They didn't know any other way of life and they seemed quite content.However, as we see near the end of the movie, not everyone in that area lives in a sturdy tent and raises sheep and camels. There is a store miles away and schools and music and dance classes, etc. The little boy in featured family is awed when he sees a television set. He wants one, of course. The grandpa tells the boy he'd just sit around and watch TV all day and that would be bad. In the end, though, the movie concludes with a shot of a huge satellite dish outside the tent! The story is basically about how the family figures out who to get the mother camel to nurse its young one and, yes, there is a happy ending.Summary: a likable film but you must be patient with it.

Andres Salama The title of this documentary from Mongolia is not a metaphor - there is an actual weeping camel in the movie. Directed by a Mongolian woman and an Italian man who met as students at a German film school and set in the Mongolian steppe, the plot is slight and the directing style is somewhat artless, yet the story is charming and interesting. After a difficult delivery, a mother camel refuses to nurse her young. The camel owners (nomadic Mongolian shepherds, living in a ger in the steppe) send their two children to the city in order to get a violinist to convince the camel, through music, to feed her baby. And the movie allows us to see a particular civilization that is increasingly encroached by the modern world (one of the movie's most poignant scenes had the children demanding their father for a television).

baumert-1 I was entranced by this movie. When the young camel's mother rejected the baby, which was white and rare, the mother sent these two young boys across the the bare country with only the power line as their guide, to fetch the "fiddler", I had no idea what to expect. Well, they found the fiddler, and he promised to show up in a few days, which he did-on the back of a friend's motorcycle. He took his "fiddle', which looked like a converted cigar box, over to the mama camel, played a few different notes until the camel started humming that same note. The mother leaned in against the camel's side humming the note, and when all were in sync and the mama camel was relaxed, they led the baby camel up to her and she allowed him to nurse. The whole audience in that theater sighed"Awwww". Magical. The final scene was Dad putting up a TV antenna, with the Mom and boys waiting to see the grainy picture. I bought the movie. Happy to sign my name Marilyn Baumert baumert@sbcglobal.net 7526 Mtn. Shadow Dr. Riverside, CA, 92509 (909) 685-2919