THARLO
Pema Tseden / China / 2015 / 123 min / Black and white
Tharlo, orphaned at birth, is a 40-year-old shepherd in a Tibetan village. Nicknamed "Trecce", he is famous for his prodigious memory, thanks to which he remembers all of Mao Ze Dong's works. When he is sent to town to get a photo for his document, he naively falls in love with a young hairdresser. To begin a life with her, far from his native land, he sells the sheep entrusted to him by his co-villagers, but he will find himself alone and deceived. In its elegant and spartan black-and-white, the film shows the disorientation of a population that has lost its very identity, subject to a foreign oppressor who hypocritical propaganda is contradicted in the events of a petty race for money.
Pema Tseden
A Tibetan director, documentarist and writer born in 1969, Tseden's debut film was The Silent Holy Stones in 2005, made entirely in Tibet with local actors and in the Tibetan language. His films, including Old Dog (2011), The Sacred Arrow (2014) and Tharlo (2015), have been shown at important international festivals and awarded prestigious prizes.
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Subject Tharlo Pema TsedenScreenplay Pema TsedenCinematography Lu SongyeSound Dukar TserangEditing Song BingMusic Wang JueMain cast Shide Nyima, Yangshik TsoProducer Wu LeileiProduction company Heaven Pictures Culture & Media
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