
SCREENING
The Search
Saturday, Sep 7, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Part of Pema Tseden
Dir. Pema Tseden. 2009, 111 mins. China. DCP. In Tibetan with English subtitles. With Manla Kyab, Tsondrey, Lumo Tso. The Search is a road movie wrapped around three love stories. A director and crew are driving through the Amdo region of Qinghai looking for local cast to star in their film version of the classic Tibetan opera Prince Drime Kundun. They encounter a woman who agrees to play Drime Kundun’s wife, Mande Zangmo, only if the crew helps her to find her ex-lover, who is now a schoolteacher. Along the way, a businessman companion recounts his own sad love story. Shot in exquisite long takes, this brilliant film explores how stories can be told and how love can be articulated, in a culture whose traditions are under great stress. And it hints at the possibility of capturing, in cinema, an evanescent spiritual beauty, almost but not quite beyond reach.
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