"Tulpan" is not your mainstream movie. In contrary, shot in a documentary style, this moving simple tale has deeper meanings about life in a treeless, remote area in Southern Kazakhstan. We are very far from the Civilization despite Boney M being present in this desolated region through one of their song. "Tulpan" might have difficult and tense scenes however it remains a well made comedy full of witty humor specific to situations only possible in those forgotten areas where life is a continuous survival against harsh conditions of the nature.
Life could have been better to our young hero, an ex-marine with "both hands and legs" if only the parents of Tulpan; the only single woman in the region would have agreed to give her as a bride. Our young hero has no proper job and to make the matter worse, he has two big ears. This is cynicism at it's best with a heartwarming evolution but no Americanize victory and happy end.
Sergei Dvortsevoy succeeds giving us the bleak beauty of the steppe’s windswept landscape: the endless sky, the camel stampedes, and one of the most remarkable animal birth scenes. A definite crowd- pleas er able to touch us in its extreme conditions of life. After all, this is a movie with universal tendencies.
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