Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion (2003)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 7
Makes no effort to do more than present one side of its story, but does it so passionately and persuasively that the viewer almost cannot help but be moved.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 4
Makes no effort to do more than present one side of its story, but does it so passionately and persuasively that the viewer almost cannot help but be moved.
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Shortly after graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, filmmaker Tom Peosay and his wife Sue (an Asian Studies major) set out on a tour of Asia that culminated in an extended stay in the Chinese-occupied nation of Tibet. With that formative visit, the Peosays became actively interested in the small Himalayan nation's tempestuous history and, over the course of the next decade, made a number of return visits to document Tibet's story, as well as interview a number of its
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All Critics (54) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (7) | DVD (5)
It is pretty convincing in its argument that China has every intention of destroying the culture of Tibetans.
Top CriticHarrowing and illuminating.
Despite its undeniably moving, and enlightening, moments, the film eventually tips into pedagogy.
Makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of a people that the world must never be allowed to forget, no matter how much their oppressors would prefer us to do just that.
A passionate work of advocacy documentary.
A sobering examination of a land in turmoil and a people that have faced what former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne Kirkpatrick cites as 20 years of ethnic cleansing.
For an overview about the current situation in Tibet it's tough to beat Tom Peosay's documentary
preaches to the converted, but it preaches well and may serve to inspire more people to take action on behalf of Tibet
This incredible documentary, so excellently crafted, is both moving and informative.
A compelling story that it should not be missed. The photography of Tibet is as gorgeous as the footage and stories of Chinese atrocities are disturbing.
As objective as any film on the subject can possibly be, Tibet was reportedly made over the course of a decade, sustained by a passion and dedication on the part of its makers that resonates in every frame of this gripping, heartbreaking odyssey.
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Simultaneously horrifying and transporting.
As a film, the technique barely serves the well-intentioned motivation behind it: the exposure of unprincipled subjugation.
Peosay does a remarkably good job providing the historical and political context for the China-Tibet struggle, something that often seems missing from "Free Tibet" rhetoric.
Haunting documentary.
So thorough is the cinematic journalism that you'll swiftly forget what a challenge it must have been to document or simulate all of the key moments in a story that spans thousands of years of history.
...a damning indictment of one of the world's dirtiest open secrets.
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