Tuya de hun shi 2006

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It is a fine and plaintive experience, more modern-day folklore than ethnographic study, and a wonderfully assured piece of cinema. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: This 2006 drama is refreshing not only for its gentle comic touches but for director Wang Quanan's refusal to sentimentalize China's vanishing nomadic culture: life is harsh and no one's a saint, including his outspoken heroine. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: [Yu Nan] owns the role of Tuya, delivering a wide-ranging performance that might be called 'star-making' if she didn't already suggest the confidence of an established star. Read more

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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Tuya's Marriage is thoroughly gratifying in its consistent inventiveness and has a grasp of human nature so universal that there's no feeling of the exotic about the film and its people. Read more

Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: For those who are still reeling from the forced exuberance of Mamma Mia! but have room for one more film about a woman with multiple suitors, may I recommend Tuya's Marriage? Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Tuya's Marriage has enough material to supply an entire year of a soap opera -- in Inner Mongolia, that is. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A compact near-masterpiece that combines a slow-motion romantic comedy with a docudrama-style portrait of a remote, nomadic culture as it is gradually eroded by the tides of the 21st century. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: A strong addition to the burgeoning canon of China's so-called Sixth Generation filmmakers. Read more

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Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: Director Wang Quan'an shows us a China of contrasts and in transition, where a life of traditional farming is harder than ever to sustain while life in the nearest city includes nice hotels, decent health care and good schools. Read more

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Derek Elley, Variety: Made with a scrupulous attention to the slow-moving realities of grasslands life but lacking in dramatic heft. Read more

Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice: [Director Wang Quan] still maintains an emotional remove from his subject, tracing the encroaching will of capitalism-as in the evolution from horses to motorcycles to cars-more clinically than poetically. Read more