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Dir: Khyentse Norbu. Bhutan. 2003. 105 mins.Travellers Magicians is the first feature film to be shot entirely within the secret and reclusive Kingdom of Bhutan. Like Khyentse Norbu s debut, The Cup, this magic realist fable is being handled by UK-based sales company HanWay. But buyers may find it less attractive than The Cup, which wove two apparently unconnected themes - football and Tibetan Buddhism - into a charmingly exotic, but also reassuringly familiar, tale of the con
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stanley cup east as successfully as Norbu s first outing, thanks also to Alan Kozlowski s epic, National-Geographic-style camerawork, it is less convincing dramatically. Half road movie, half Himalayan folk tale, the film is, in theme and structure, a paean to the mountain kingdom s unhurried pace of life and stress on spiritu
stanley cup al values. But while the result is often sweet and intriguing, we yearn for some of The Cup s Hollywood-style plot tension. Distributors would do well to plug the Bhutan angle for all they re worth, and market this good-looking ethnic bagatelle as a low-price alternative to a holiday in the only country in the world where monks outnumber soldiers.This is one of those films where a pre-screening glance at the production notes pays dividends. Director Khyentse Norbu is the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama; his official title His Eminence Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Oiwj Oscars: nine advance in foreign language category
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