Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
(Lunana)
Country: BHU/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Cast: Sherab Dorji, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Pem Zam
Synopsis:
A student part way through his five-year teaching training program longs to travel to Australia and work as a singer-entertainer, but is sent to the remotest spot in Bhutan to work as teacher for the village children. Deprived of mod cons, and with scarcely any resources, he finds reserves nevertheless of improvisation and commitment he never knew he had.
Review:
A quiet, charming film which, like Être et avoir, uses its children well! The quasi-religious sub-theme of singing for the yaks is well attuned to the dignified beauty of the landscape, affording us the hope that, even if he never returns, Ugyen will have been left, and will leave, an indelible mark. The teaching scenes might have been developed further, stopping as they do at 1,2,3/A,B,C, which the children seem to know already.
(Lunana)
Country: BHU/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Cast: Sherab Dorji, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Pem Zam
Synopsis:
A student part way through his five-year teaching training program longs to travel to Australia and work as a singer-entertainer, but is sent to the remotest spot in Bhutan to work as teacher for the village children. Deprived of mod cons, and with scarcely any resources, he finds reserves nevertheless of improvisation and commitment he never knew he had.
Review:
A quiet, charming film which, like Être et avoir, uses its children well! The quasi-religious sub-theme of singing for the yaks is well attuned to the dignified beauty of the landscape, affording us the hope that, even if he never returns, Ugyen will have been left, and will leave, an indelible mark. The teaching scenes might have been developed further, stopping as they do at 1,2,3/A,B,C, which the children seem to know already.
(Lunana)
Country: BHU/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Cast: Sherab Dorji, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Pem Zam
Synopsis:
A student part way through his five-year teaching training program longs to travel to Australia and work as a singer-entertainer, but is sent to the remotest spot in Bhutan to work as teacher for the village children. Deprived of mod cons, and with scarcely any resources, he finds reserves nevertheless of improvisation and commitment he never knew he had.
Review:
A quiet, charming film which, like Être et avoir, uses its children well! The quasi-religious sub-theme of singing for the yaks is well attuned to the dignified beauty of the landscape, affording us the hope that, even if he never returns, Ugyen will have been left, and will leave, an indelible mark. The teaching scenes might have been developed further, stopping as they do at 1,2,3/A,B,C, which the children seem to know already.