The Story Of The Weeping Camel [2004]

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Customer reviews

review by: Christina date: 2008-12-16 rating:
A Slower And More Pensive Pace
This film is such a beautiful contrast to so many of the fast-action films that usually hit the headlines and, for that alone, it is well worth watching.
In an age and culture where we expect immediate remedies, where babies are born in clinical settings and induced if they are late, where we rush from one place to the next, this beautiful film presents an entirely different way of life. The slow migration of the family; the interaction between all the generations and, above all, the genuine concern for the camel, is so beautiful. The filming is absolutely superb! How on earth they managed to film the camel as they did is amazing to me.
A really beautiful and simple story, and one that is as absorbing as any action-packed thriller!

Most Beautiful Princess

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review by: date: 2008-11-29 rating:
A high octane non stop roller coaster of a film
i dont understand how the other reviewers moan about the lack of plot in this film. it's a story about a camel and her calf in mongolia not a fast action bank job movie, what were they expecting?
Unfortunately this film was wasted on them, they didnt get it and maybe it will be lost on you.
This film is very simple to follow, it's alsmost fly on the wall documentary style, a snap shot of a nomadic family in mongolia trying to get a camel to accept her calf she rejected, it's not art house, it's not hollywood but simply a charming unoffensive film thats quite refreshing to watch. And yes, one of the kids is called Dude but the chances are this is a common name in mongolia and has nothing to do with the western take on the word.
My copy is part of the World Cinema Classics : Jean De Florette / Talk To Her / Story Of The Weeping Camel / Kagemusha / The Chorus (5 Disc Box Set) box set which is currently cheaper than buying this dvd on it's own and well worth buying.

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review by: date: 2008-11-11 rating:
A mixed review
Here's the scoop. My wife & kids loved it and would certainly have given it 5 stars. And all of her friends & friends kids loved it as well. So maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I found it to be a relatively lame production, which tries to make up with an exotic atmosphere what it lacks in plot and character. I didn't hate it by any means, but it just didn't work for me.

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review by: date: 2008-08-22 rating:
Charming (if artless) Mongolian documentary
The title of this documentary from Mongolia is not a metaphor - there is an actual weeping camel in the movie. Directed by a Mongolian woman and an Italian man who met as students at a German film school and set in the Mongolian steppe, the plot is slight and the directing style is somewhat artless, yet the story is charming and interesting. After a difficult delivery, a mother camel refuses to nurse her young. The camel owners (nomadic Mongolian shepherds, living in a ger in the steppe) send their two children to the city in order to get a violinist to convince the camel, through music, to feed her baby. And the movie allows us to see a particular civilization that is increasingly encroached by the modern world (one of the movie's most poignant scenes had the children demanding their father for a television).


review by: Rob Hardie date: 2008-07-10 rating:
Disappointing
This is a simple enough story. The footage is genuine - no CGI here. The story moves forward at a very slow pace and is subtitled although the dialogue is minimal. As an insight into another way of life it was certainly interesting. However, I purchased this based largely on reviews and recommendations on the Amazon site as well as others. I found it disappointing and feel that the other reviewers must have been in to camel husbandry or watching the film on fast forward. Unfortunately, I fail to see how this could get 5 stars.

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