
SCREENING
Jinpa
Sunday, Sep 8, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Location: Redstone Theater
Part of Pema Tseden
Dir. Pema Tseden. 2018, 87 mins. China. DCP. In Tibetan with English subtitles. With Jinpa, Genden Phuntsok, Sonam Wangmo. Pema Tseden’s offbeat fable is a striking departure from his realist narratives: part road movie, part Tibetan western. Two men named Jinpa meet on a mountain road in the Kekexili highlands near Tibet. One Jinpa, never without his sunglasses, is a truck driver (and Neapolitan song fancier), upset he has struck and killed a sheep. He picks up the other, brooding, Jinpa, who announces he is on a search for the killer of his father. We follow the first Jinpa to a monastery, a butcher, his lover, and a saloon presided over by a sultry barmaid (an incandescent Sonam Wangmo). Eventually the two men’s stories, dreams, and fates intertwine, as weighty moral questions of karma and compassion hang in the balance. Filmed by Lü Songye’s in tightly focused, fantastically warped Academy ratio photography.
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