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Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

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Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion reviews
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8.6 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 20 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by: Victoria Mudd
Sue Peosay

Directed by: Tom Peosay

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 19, 2003

Running Time: 100 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Martin Sheen (narrator), Edward Edwards, Ed Harris, Shirley Knight, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Robert Thurman, and Dalai Lama

A sweeping and compelling look at the struggle of the Tibetan people for freedom over the course of more than five decades. (Artistic License Films)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Curiel

Documentaries can be informative, entertaining and provocative, but rare is the documentary that makes you feel so engaged (and enraged) that it prompts you to action somehow. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion is that kind of film.

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90

The New York Times Dave Kehr

A more concise and affecting summation of the Tibetan crisis would be hard to imagine.

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90

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Each revelation seems more disturbing than the next. But Chinese treatment of Tibetans is only half the heartbreak. The other is the amazing resilience of the Tibetans, who are overwhelmingly Buddhist.

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90

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Each revelation seems more disturbing than the next. But Chinese treatment of Tibetans is only half the heartbreak. The other is the amazing resilience of the Tibetans, who are overwhelmingly Buddhist.

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90

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

Riveting, eye-opening issue film.

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88

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Assembles varied and remarkable digital video, archival footage, photographs, interviews and personal reflections and academics' perspectives to convey the scope and history of the Tibetan story.

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88

Miami Herald Marta Barber

It is pretty convincing in its argument that China has every intention of destroying the culture of Tibetans.

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80

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

The most comprehensive and devastating documentary yet on that tragic country.

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78

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

More than worthy viewing. What it lacks at times in elegance it possesses in intensity and feeling.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

The exiled Tibetans who are interviewed display a lack of bitterness, a sympathy for their enemies and hope for the future that is inspiring.

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75

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Though the Chinese government won't be too happy about it, everyone else ought to be deeply moved by the tragedies Peosay records.

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Part political thriller, part National Geographic travelogue, Tom Peosay's documentary is a distressing look at China's 50-year repression of the people of Tibet.

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75

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Less a documentary than a cry of outrage -- a series of exotic images that slowly turn horrifying.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

A passionate, well-made documentary that stresses how time is running out for a peaceful solution.

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70

Variety Robert Koehler

The film is, at times, emotionally riveting -- yet also has an institutional feeling, largely because it attempts to cover too much ground in too little time.

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70

Village Voice Thulani Davis

Pitched for a sympathetic American audience, the documentary goes for shock with the filmmakers' first trip to "the altar of the world" in 1987, when they happened to be caught in an uprising of monks that was violently crushed by the Chinese army.

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70

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

I appreciated its cogent history lesson, which details China's brutal treatment of Tibetan nationals from the late 1940s through the Cultural Revolution and into the '80s, when it executed 15,000 dissidents.

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63

Chicago Tribune Ellen Fox

The film itself is such a measured primer of talking heads and footage -- a broad, slick Tibet 101 -- that it seems better suited to the classroom than the big screen, despite its Himalayan scenery and rustic colors.

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60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Rather than rage, Peosay's film radiates sadness over a singular way of life in danger of imminent obliteration.

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50

LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

The film is exhaustive -- and ultimately exhausting.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Everett D. gave it a 10:
Hey, Charles... I have never been to "Tibit", but I have been to Tibet, and I saw that sort of thing happening all around me. Nothing on the scale of riots or killings, but disturbing things none-the-less. For example, while watching the a World Cup game, this Tibetan man cheered when Team China was scored on, and was promptly dragged out into the street, cuffed, and sent to jail for 5 years. I also got to see one of the prisons and the condition that these prisoners have to live in, and they were appalling. I can name story after story of situations of this kind, but this is not really the place to do so. Did you not even notice the definite border between the outright 3rd-world slums of the Tibetan Section and the nice modern Chinese section of Lhasa? Did you notice that it was only Chinese stores in this area, with only Chinese employees? And this is only Lhasa! Did you bother talking to the locals (both sides, Tibetan and Chinese) to hear THEIR take on the situation of things in Tibet? This is the thing I admired most about this movie, I could tell that the filmmakers spent a lot of time doing this very thing. They portray the emotions (fear, disillusionment, sorrow, hope) shared by the Tibetan people honestly and sincerely. This movie was not made to undermine China's image, its to urge China to adopt a better image. According to Amnesty International, they are one of the biggest offenders of Human Rights violations in the world, this is the image they have NOW. The image they COULD have is one of benevolence if their policies towards their ethnic minorities were overhauled. Keep in mind that these issues are not exclusive to Tibet, but in Xinjiang as well (the province to the north of Tibet). The exact same thing is happening to the Uyghur people of that area, only it gets no press at all.

Jay W. gave it a 6:
A well-crafted documentary whose moral force is seriously undermined by a failure to explore the oppression of Tibetan peasants during 700 years of rule by the Lamas, whose temples and monasteries drained nearly eighty percent of the country's budget.

Charles L. gave it a 0:
Total non-sense. I have been to tibit. And all of the stuff they shown in the movie is either total bullsh.t or extremely dramatized. In essence, it is just a political film used to undermine the image of China.

Dhondup C. gave it a 10:
What a Movie.

Tsering P. gave it a 10:
My Hats off to all involved in this project. The Tibetan people will never forget what you have done in terms of accurately telling the world what has happened in Tibet: a non-violent nation brutally invaded and occupied by a very violent nation.

Kunsang D. gave it a 10:
I found it to be the best documentary on the last 50 years of Chinese repression of my people, Tibetans, in Tibet. There is a lot of compassion in Tibetan people due to our strong religious beliefs and practice but one that the the film touches slightly is of the new generation of Tibetans who are questioning the path of non-violence as a means to obtain freedom. I am one of them. Without taking any further space, please do see it. It will question your ideals, your morals, your view of the world, Tibet, and China, and your compassion. A must see documentary for a caring human being.

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