Tulpan Critic Reviews

I swear to you that if you live in a place where this film is playing, it is the best film in town.Read the full review

If you see only one comic love story from Kazakhstan this year, choose this prize-winning honey.Read the full review

Might be described as an epic landscape film, a sweetly comic coming-of-age story or a lyrical work of social realism. But the setting -- a windswept, sparely populated steppe in southern Kazakhstan -- gives the movie a mood that sometimes feels closer to that of science fiction.Read the full review

Polished, funny and utterly charming.Read the full review

In the tradition of ethnographic dramas from "Nanook of the North" to "The Fast Runner," Tulpan drops us in the middle of a godforsaken nowhere and marvels at the people who live there.Read the full review

A beautifully choreographed and photographed story about tradition and modernity in rural Asia.Read the full review

This is a difficult film to pigeonhole, an indefinable mixture of genres and attitudes that is by turns off-the-wall and serious, comic and sad.Read the full review

A tender, unforgettable comedy about a vanishing way of life.Read the full review