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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary Filmmaker Zhang Yang (Shower, Getting Home) blurs the border between documentary and fiction to follow a group of Tibetan villagers who leave their families and homes in the small village of Nyima to make a Buddhist "bowing pilgrimage"-laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps-along the 1,200 mile road to Lhasa, the ho...

Directed By: Yang Zhang

Written By: Yang Zhang

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 55 m

Paths of the Soul

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
90
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Summary Filmmaker Zhang Yang (Shower, Getting Home) blurs the border between documentary and fiction to follow a group of Tibetan villagers who leave their families and homes in the small village of Nyima to make a Buddhist "bowing pilgrimage"-laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps-along the 1,200 mile road to Lhasa, the ho...

Directed By: Yang Zhang

Written By: Yang Zhang

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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100
May 19, 2016
The film is restful and exhausting, inviting us into contemplation: of Tibet's epic-scale natural beauty, which has rarely been filmed with such you-are-there patience and intimacy, each new horizon these pilgrims reach a reward for their perseverance — and yours.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
100
May 19, 2016
Filmed in simple documentary fashion and performed with immaculate conviction by a non-professional cast, the pic, helmed by Zhang Yang (“Shower,” “Getting Home”) is a stirring study in faith and spirituality that will inspire many viewers to think about big and small questions of life.
By Richard Kuipers FULL REVIEW
90
Jun 9, 2016
The movie’s physicality is never pushed to suggest suffering. It’s like a constant meditation, something to absorb and exhale.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
90
May 19, 2016
Blurring the confines between documentary and fiction, it takes the empathetic viewer on an incredible journey that can be almost as painful to follow vicariously from a theater seat as it must have been on the pilgrims.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
90
May 12, 2016
The movie so upends the traditions of documentary and narrative filmmaking that “dramatizes” may be inaccurate — the filmmakers followed the real pilgrims for a full year, after all. But the movie is so well made and engaging that such distinctions will make little difference to the viewer.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
May 19, 2016
The film develops into a stirring salute to their deep-rooted spiritual devotion and quiet determination.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
75
May 9, 2016
Zhang Yang achieves an astonishing immediacy by simply allowing the prostration process to play out over and over with minimal aesthetic interference.
By Nick Prigge FULL REVIEW

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35% Negative
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Production Company He Li Chen Guang International Culture Media(Beijing), Heli Chen'guang International Media, Khorgas Le Vision Pictures, Shanghai Maisong Film Investment, Shenzhen Madeng Film
Release Date May 13, 2016
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.moviola.jp/lhasa/
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Awards

Asian Film Festival Barcelona
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
NEW ERA FILM FESTIVAL
• 3 Nominations
Movie Heroes Awards, China
• 2 Nominations

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