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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Quite extraordinary. Gently comic, ultimately stirring, the nomadic world Dvortsevoy chronicles pays loving attention to the lives of both humans and animals -- interdependent residents in a difficult, memorable part of the world. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: The documentary aspects of Tulpan offer an interesting, if familiar, portrait of hardscrabble existence. It's the fictional aspects focusing on thwarted hearts and libidos, however, that stick with you. Read more
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: If you surrender to its pace, Tulpan can be intoxicating; it's like nothing else in theaters. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: A beautifully choreographed and photographed story about tradition and modernity in rural Asia. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: 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. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: With a deadpan charm all its own, Tulpan ends up dealing with some fairly serious questions on the order of how you make peace with a dream. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A coming-of-age story that also examines the pull and push of the modern and traditional, Tulpan is a striking, unique, narrative feature debut for director-writer Sergei Dvortsevoy. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There's no room for mush in filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy's triumphant, intimate drama, not when the necessities of daily life are so elemental, and so tenderly observed. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The acting and story are solid, but the real star of Tulpan is the gorgeous, never-ending landscape -- flat and arid, and home to camels, goats and lambs, and hearty people who live in tentlike yurts. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: This uncategorizable story, both ancient and modern, is, simply and poetically, about a nomad looking to make his home. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Tulpan is an amazing film. It shows such an unfamiliar world, it might as well be Mars. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: What makes Tulpan remarkable are the extended unbroken scenes, both dramatic and comic. Read more
Tamara Straus, San Francisco Chronicle: A tender, unforgettable comedy about a vanishing way of life. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Equal parts deadpan romcom and National Geographic special, Tulpan certainly the funniest movie about Kazakh sheep herders that you will ever see. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The latest import from the steppes of the former Soviet empire is Tulpan, a bittersweet slice of life with a sweet center. Read more
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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Russian director Sergei Dvortsevoy's funny, fascinating, utterly unclassifiable film Tulpan is ethnographic filmmaking without the preaching. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: With Tulpan, his first feature film, Kazakhstani director Sergei Dvortsevoy has crafted a sweetly gentle story about life in this barren place. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: Dvortsevoy exhibits the storytelling composure and technical proficiency of a veteran, while his keen eye for a pastoral poetic flourish places 'Tulpan' firmly among the year's most endearing cinematic experiences. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Dvortsevoy could be the most artistically driven documentary filmmaker since Werner Herzog. Read more
Dan Kois, Washington Post: To certain serious world-cinema aficionados, Tulpan's combination of understated comedy and documentary-level depiction of rural Kazakh life will be catnip. Read more