Travellers & Magicians
The bitter and the sweet of temporary things.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 25, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tshewang Dendup & Ap Dochu | |
Performer: | Sonam Kinga, Sonam Lhamo, Dasho Adab Sangye, Lhakpa Dorji, Gomchen Penjore & Deki Yangzom | |
Directed by | Khyentse Norbu | |
Screenwriting by | Khyentse Norbu | |
Produced by | Jeremy Thomas, Raymond Steiner & Malcolm Watson | |
Director of Photography: | Alan J. Kozlowski | |
Executive Production by | Jeremy Thomas |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Refreshingly quiet and thoughtful.
Houston Chronicle
There is much more to Travellers & Magicians than a mere travelogue, and the journey is well worth the price of admission.
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Film Journal International
[A] pleasant, colorful travelogue....Mr. Norbu provides a lot of ingratiating comic moments.
New York Times
Rating: B+ --
A colorful and witty work that doesn't preach so much as gently nudge us to consider the wonders of our existence.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: B --
All Norbu's posturing for a greater spiritual meaning never materialized, though it still looms as an assured work.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
[A] film so enchanting one hates to see it come to an end....A warm, embracing film of transcendent beauty and spirituality.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B --
For Norbu, filmmaking has become his form of thangka painting
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Old School Reviews
Product Description:
Writer-director Khyentse Norbu, who scored an international hit with the 1999 drama THE CUP (PHORPA), about Tibetan refugees obsessed with watching the World Cup soccer finals, returns to his homeland to make the remarkably charming and engaging TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS, the first feature-length film to be made completely within the Kingdom of Bhutan. Norbu, who worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on 1997's LITTLE BUDDHA, is believed to be His Eminence Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, an incarnate lama, and he infuses TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS with a thoughtful and contemplative Buddhist mind-set. Tshewang Dendup stars as Dondup, a young, impatient cigarette smoker from the city who has stopped by the small, remote village of Chendebji on his way to America, where he can't wait to make lots of money. But as he sets out on his long journey, he misses his bus and must try to hitch a ride down the mountain on the nearly deserted roads. He is soon joined by an old apple picker (Ap Dochu), a monk who plays the dramyin (Sonam Kinga), a rice-paper maker (Dasho Adab Sangye), and the rice-paper maker's college-age daughter (Sonam Lhamo). As they wait for rides, the monk begins relating a story about a magic student, Tashi (Lhakpa Dorji), who doesn't believe in magic and would rather start making money in the corporate world. But his brother, Karma (Namgay Dorjee), who does believe, concocts a plan that soon has Tashi stranded in the middle of the forest with a bitter old man (Gomchen Penjore) and his beautiful, much-younger wife, Deki (Deki Yangzom). Norbu magnificently intertwines the two stories, creating an enchanting, unforgettable film that is filled with heart, hope, and humor.
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