Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThree young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in 1... Tout lireThree young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in 1996 on a Sony DVW-700WS and a consumer Sony DCR-VX1000 and edited on avid with digital fin... Tout lireThree young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in 1996 on a Sony DVW-700WS and a consumer Sony DCR-VX1000 and edited on avid with digital finishing and color correction at RolandHouse in Washington, DC.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 2 victoires et 2 nominations au total
Avis à la une
I'm not able to check this, but grant for the sake of argument that "Windhorse" is (a) based on actual events, and (b) represents those actual events as accurately as was in the film-makers' power to represent them. Well and good. All the same it's a work of fiction, and fiction requires something more than fidelity to the real world and worthy motives in order to succeed. "Windhorse" has little story, flatly and poorly presented ... indeed, I needn't go on, since nobody could even mistake this film for a good work of fiction; it's so lacklustre, in fact, that the only danger is that someone will mistake it for a documentary.
Yes, the Chinese occupation of Tibet was and is unjustified. I felt as if I we were being asked to sit through something - not at all painful, but terribly earnest and dull - as penance for living in a world in which such a thing was allowed to happen. I would have preferred a documentary. A good one of those would have tried harder to be informative. It would have told me what it wanted me to think, or what it wanted me to do, and then given me reasons why I should think so or do so.
This is not a movie that you watch on a lazy evening for entertainment. It is sad, sometimes brutal, and it left me with a terrible sense of hopelessness about the long-term fate of the Tibetans left in Tibet (although it also made me feel hopeful about Tibetan expatriates). But it is a movie that tells a truth that needs telling, especially today, when we have all forgotten what Communist China is really like.
Meilleurs choix
Détails
Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 278 161 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 16 718 $US
- 14 févr. 1999
- Durée1 heure 37 minutes
- Couleur