Tulpan (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

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Askhat Kuchinchirekov as the lovelorn Asa in “Tulpan,” a coming-of-age film set in windswept southern Kazakhstan.
April 1, 2009
A Hapless Romantic, Smitten on the Steppe
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: April 1, 2009

“Tulpan,” the first fictional feature by the Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy, 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. More