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Khadak

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9.0 User Score:

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Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Peter Brosens
Jessica Hope Woodworth

Directed by: Peter Brosens
Jessica Hope Woodworth

Release Date:
Theatrical: October 12, 2007
DVD: March 4, 2008

Running Time: 104 minutes, Color

Origin: Belgium / Germany

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Tsetsegee Byamba, Dugarsuren Dagvadorj, Banzar Damchaa, Tserendarizav Dashnyam, and Batzul Khayankhyarvaa

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, Khadak tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman. A plague strikes the animals, and the nomads are forcibly relocated to desolate mining towns. Bagi saves the life of a beautiful coal thief, Zolzaya, and together they reveal that the plague was a lie fabricated to eradicate nomadism. A sublime revolution ensues. (Bo Films)

What The Critics Said

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

The film's leisurely pace and abstract format isn't meant for the multiplex crowd, but rather for adventurous moviegoers. It took guts to make Khadak and to give it a theatrical release. It might take even more guts to seek it out.

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75

Chicago Tribune Sid Smith

It’s slow--make that very slow--and the final half hour or so is mystifying and tedious. But it gorgeously recalls Fellini and “Koyaanisqatsi” and hauntingly pits ancient tradition against science, oppression and industrial rot.

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63

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Even when their picture wanders from any reasonable path, it's never less than stunning to look at.

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50

Variety Leslie Felperin

Beads together complex ideas and gorgeously wrought segments like pearls on a string, but, with its emblematic characters and sometimes baffling, mystical storyline, pic ultimately remains emotionally distant.

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50

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

This is well staged and photographed, with stirring aerial images and balletic pans and dolly shots, but the story is muddled by the arrival of a free-spirited girl and her musician pals, 60s-style longhairs battling a government conspiracy.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson

An ambitious attempt at cinematic poetry, and how much they have succeeded depends on how well you can sort out its surrealistic meanings.

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50

The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz

A trippy spectacle. It boldly tries to find visuals to describe complex metaphysical and political concepts. But the results often suggest aestheticized eye candy, along the lines of Ken Russell’s “Altered States” or Godfrey Reggio’s “Koyaanisqatsi” and its sequels.

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40

Village Voice Nick Pinkerton

Khadak recedes deeper and deeper into esoterica as it progresses.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

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

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