Tartan Films
NEW YORK -- Filmmaker Byambasuren Davaa's follow-up to his award-winning "The Story of the Weeping Camel" is a similarly gorgeous ethnographic effort telling a simple tale of human and animal interactions amid an exotic setting. The story of a young girl's fondness for the stray puppy she adopts, "The Cave of the Yellow Dog" is likely to find similar success on the art house circuit. It recently played at New York's Angelika Film Center.
Filmed in Mongolia and featuring a nonprofessional cast made up of a single nomadic family, the film, like its predecessor, is less reliant on plot than showcasing the beauty of the landscape in which it is set. While the narrative is slight -- 6-year-old Nansal (Nansal Batchuluun) finds a cute dog in a cave, brings it home and incurs the wrath of her father (Urjindorj Batchuluun), who fears it will attract wolves and threaten the family's herd of sheep -- it is rendered with a quasi-documentary-style simplicity that is hard to resist. As are its lead characters, the adorable little girl and her camera-friendly pooch, whose interactions form the crux of the tale.
A leisurely illustration of the changing facets of the agricultural, Buddhist-oriented society in which the story is set, "Yellow Dog" seems to make time stand still, and in this case the observation is not meant to be derogatory.
NEW YORK -- Filmmaker Byambasuren Davaa's follow-up to his award-winning "The Story of the Weeping Camel" is a similarly gorgeous ethnographic effort telling a simple tale of human and animal interactions amid an exotic setting. The story of a young girl's fondness for the stray puppy she adopts, "The Cave of the Yellow Dog" is likely to find similar success on the art house circuit. It recently played at New York's Angelika Film Center.
Filmed in Mongolia and featuring a nonprofessional cast made up of a single nomadic family, the film, like its predecessor, is less reliant on plot than showcasing the beauty of the landscape in which it is set. While the narrative is slight -- 6-year-old Nansal (Nansal Batchuluun) finds a cute dog in a cave, brings it home and incurs the wrath of her father (Urjindorj Batchuluun), who fears it will attract wolves and threaten the family's herd of sheep -- it is rendered with a quasi-documentary-style simplicity that is hard to resist. As are its lead characters, the adorable little girl and her camera-friendly pooch, whose interactions form the crux of the tale.
A leisurely illustration of the changing facets of the agricultural, Buddhist-oriented society in which the story is set, "Yellow Dog" seems to make time stand still, and in this case the observation is not meant to be derogatory.
- 11/29/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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