Dao ma zei (The Horse Thief) Reviews
Combustible Celluloid
Famously, Martin Scorsese chose this film as the best he'd seen in the 1990s.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Top CriticIt offers the most awesomely plausible account of Tibetan life and culture ever seen in the west. It's one of the few films whose images show you things you've never seen before.
The film's tribal drama of theft, ostracism and terrible retribution unfolds, although the director, Tian Zhuangzhuang (an iconoclastic graduate of the Beijing Film Academy), uses few conventional means of bringing these dramatic events to the forefront.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A truly amazing film that takes a western audience to mystical places they have never seen before.
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| Original Score: A
Austin Chronicle
[It's] blessed with some of the most unbearably beautiful images of Nineties cinema.
San Francisco Examiner
An intoxicating masterpiece, and the very best film to come from China's Fifth Generation.
| Original Score: 5/5
Tian had said that he made this for the 21st century, yet even today it's a film of the future.
