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\"The only way to make a movie like this is if you love the place.\" - Sergei Dvortsevoy, director of Tulpan<\/em><\/p>\n Distinguished by its warm and humorous treatment of its characters and its string of spectacular long-takes that capture the unruly weather conditions of Kazakhstan's Hunger Steppe<\/a>, Tulpan<\/strong><\/em> transcends its folktale conventions and becomes an energetic and revelatory immersion into the daily life of nomadic Kazakh sheep herders.\u00a0 Don't miss this remarkable film on Wednesday and Thursday, September 9-10 at 7:00pm<\/strong>, with post-film discussions by Peter Gardner, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at MU (and, as usual, beverages beforehand).<\/p>\n \"Tulpan<\/em> has just about everything anyone could want in a movie,\" writes Amy Taubin<\/a> in Artforum<\/em>: \"wild swings of mood and weather, generational and cultural clashes, epic vistas of land and sky, fragile connections among humans and animals, the struggle for survival in a harsh environment, and the yearning of a young man for autonomy and a piece of the land of his birth. In a film packed with emotion, there is not a trace of sentimentality, perhaps because Dvortsevoy is a superb dialectician with a sense of humor that is both absurdist and tender.\"<\/p>\n