Tulpan - La ragazza che non c'era

A Hapless Romantic, Smitten on the Steppe

“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.
The terrain looks singularly unsuited to human habitation, and the nomads who tend their sheep amid the ample dust and meager grass resemble residents of a half-forgotten outpost on a distant planet, waiting for a spaceship to fall from the sky. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4262 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 3 April 2009