The Cup
This
film is in Hindi with English subtitles. It's interesting to note that it is
billed as the first Bhutanese film. The story: In a remote Tibetan village,
a monastery attempts to hook up a satelite dish so that the locals can watch
the World Cup soccer matches. (synopsis by upcoming
movies.com)
Director/Screenwriter: Khyentse Norbu
Cast: Jamyang Lodro, Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling (these are all non-actors who are playing themselves in the film)
Reviews
A.O.Scott, The New York Times
"Khyentse Norbu, who wrote and directed The Cup, has clearly found a way to balance his evident love of movies with his own religious obligations. His first feature proves that he is also a born filmmaker. "Kevin Courier, Box Office Magazine
"Much like Iranian cinema, which deftly and subtly hides its political themes within modest parables, The Cup also holds an assortment of rich and provocative ideas within its story."Ernest Hardy, Film.com
"The Cup, written and directed by Khyentse Norbu, is being positioned to appeal to the same crowd that loved Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino, and it's not hard to see why. A foreign film cast with a cute, spunky kid lead, filled with enough references to and good-natured jabs at American pop culture to appeal to American egos, and ringed heavily with feel-good philosophical utterances, the movie at times feels stitched together explicitly for Yankee consumption. But The Cup is too slow-moving and too understated in much of its humor to click with audiences in the way its predecessors did."
