Summer Pasture
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  1. James9280
    Aug 22, 2011
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The success of a documentary so often hinges on the choice of subjects as much as the topic, and directors Lynn True and Nelson Walker hit the jackpot with Yama, Locho and their unnamed infant daughter. While the baby girl provides the kind of chubby-cheeked adorableness to melt even the coldest heart, her parents are charming and honest characters that make yak herding in the remote sprawling steppe of China feel utterly relatable.… Expand

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Metascore
73 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    Sep 15, 2011
    80
    Summer Pasture has an earthy intimacy and compassion for its subjects that will have you thinking about their plight long after they've packed up and moved on for winter.
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  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    Aug 16, 2011
    60
    The subjects - a husband and wife struggling to make ends meet, mostly for the well-being of their infant daughter - are eminently engaging.
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  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Joseph Jon Lanthier
    Aug 16, 2011
    75
    The faces of the culture - a group of nomadic Tibetans who raise yak and harvest caterpillar dung from ramshackle tents in the Chinese mountains - resist all but the most vague of ecological or political calls-to-action.
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