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Tuya's Marriage
Metascore
71 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    90
    A compact near-masterpiece that combines a slow-motion romantic comedy with a docudrama-style portrait of a remote, nomadic culture as it is gradually eroded by the tides of the 21st century.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    88
    It is a fine and plaintive experience, more modern-day folklore than ethnographic study, and a wonderfully assured piece of cinema.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    This small, sweet drama from Chinese director Wang Quang An is picturesque, romantic and unexpectedly droll tale of life in one the world's most remote regions.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Thoroughly gratifying in its consistent inventiveness and has a grasp of human nature so universal that there's no feeling of the exotic about the film and its people.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    75
    Though a heartbreaking film, there are certainly moments of quirky humor.
  6. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Kamal AL-Solaylee
    75
    When it comes to exploring with dignity and humour the choices a woman must make for her family, Tuya's Marriage is the clear winner.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    Mr. Wang and his screenwriting collaborator, Lu Wei ("Farewell My Concubine"), portray a world that, apart from its hardship, is thoroughly recognizable in its human complexity. Its characters are motivated by the same needs for companionship and material well-being and the same demons - greed, lust, jealousy and despair -- that drive everybody.
  8. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    70
    It's not a great movie, but Yu Nan's performance is superb without being showy or melodramatic.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    70
    This 2006 drama is refreshing not only for its gentle comic touches but for director Wang Quanan's refusal to sentimentalize China's vanishing nomadic culture: life is harsh and no one's a saint, including his outspoken heroine.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    Has enough material to supply an entire year of a soap opera - in Inner Mongolia, that is.
  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Dennis Fisher
    63
    The film has an ending that anyone who has watched a movie in the last 15 years will see coming half an hour into the film. But even with that, the weight of the performances from Yu Nan and Bater is enough to make for a satisfying, if uneven, film.
  12. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Gonzalez
    60
    Wang's vision is preferable to the esoteric chic of "Khadak," but the Chinese director still maintains an emotional remove from his subject.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    50
    Mainland helmer Wang Quanan and his regular lead actress, Yu Nan, tread on largely familiar ground in Tuya's Marriage.
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