One Movie One Country

1. The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005 Mongolia)

This is such a beautiful and sweet movie. Once in a while you come across a movie which is borderline therapeutic in this busy world. To say the least the movie is just about a nomadic Mongolian family living in a yurt. The whole cast has the same last name so I just assume that they are a real family. It is very difficult to get any more information on them. But I found myself smiling most of the times during the movie. The kids asking questions to their parents and responding to their silly answers. There was not a hint of pretentiousness in the movie. It really gave me much appreciation for a simple nomadic life in a farm away from the excess of modern world.

The music is minimal in the movie and is often mixed with the lullaby's of the mother which is awesome. However, when the music swells up it gives a real sense of the tone the movie is going for.

I always think that we can only know if something happening to us is good or bad when we look back at it, we cannot know whether the thing that is happening to us is good or bad at that moment. The movie portrays that very succinctly.

It is a very very good movie.

3. Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (1956, France)

Not particularly a representation of French life. But nonetheless a really awesome suspense thriller about a man trying to escape from a French-Nazi prison.