Amangeldi Nurzhanbayev, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Bereke Turganbayev
Tulpan tells of a family not only surviving but also relishing the harsh life of sheep and goat herders on a barren landscape.
DVD Release Date: September 22, 2009
Stats: 101 reviews
Never heard of this movie? Neither have I, but a friend sent an invite via text message, so down to the tiny arthouse theatre I and another friend went after Googling the film's trailer, suggesting a tale of romance. Didn't catch the first few minutes, though, so while being left...( read more)
Shoot like a documentary with hand camera, the movie captures the life of a family and their dreams, a bit too surrealistic sometimes. But there are such magic moments as birth of sheeps and Tornados passing by, and sharming animals. Camera snoops at every corner of this reality,...( read more)
Ok, a little too much of the artsy cinematography. Some good bits, some awful (re girl singing).
Don't pay for this one!
28th Int. Istanbul Film Festival
Tulpan, which means tulip, is the name of the girl pursued by Asa , an open-faced young man who claims to have been in the navy and tells his prospective in-laws tall tales of all the ugly sea creatures he has battled. In a nice touch, Dvortse...( read more)
If you surrender to its pace, Tulpan can be intoxicating; it's like nothing else in theaters. full review
Tulpan is an amazing film. It shows such an unfamiliar world, it might as well be Mars. full review
Sergei Dvortsevoy's remarkable film is fiction, but the characters are played by people more or less playing themselves, and each actor brings a rough charisma to the film. full review
Equal parts deadpan romcom and National Geographic special, Tulpan certainly the funniest movie about Kazakh sheep herders that you will ever see. full review
Russian director Sergei Dvortsevoy's funny, fascinating, utterly unclassifiable film Tulpan is ethnographic filmmaking without the preaching. full review
Tulpan might be described as an epic landscape film or a sweetly comic coming-of-age story. But the setting gives the movie a science fiction mood. full review
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