Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Sinister Sinister The Story of the Weeping Camel was the work of film students, but I warn you not to expect the work of amateurs. Because they demonstrate the humbling power of a new wave of director/writers coupled with an exciting new genre.The staggering thematic elements that tour through this movie and the painful point they make, could ask for no better a medium than the Documentary/Drama hybrid used therein. Each scene in this movie displays a drama far more gripping than it's surface appearance and yet it always pulls back giving the viewer a sobering distance to consider.We're set at wondering whether the ills match the pros of Western Culture versus a simpler and more involved life with nature. Whether the desperate need to be connected with our fellow man is more important than being connected with nature. Whether we, as a society, even care about nature at all, at this stage. Whether we care what happens to our next generation and their grapple with the world we left them...

lynxxing I have spent a lot of time on the Steppes of Central Asia, and the film makers have captured the vastness, the spirit, the loveliness and the challenges that native people face. The love and beautiful lives the people and the camels live are so intertwined....the landscape is harsh to outsiders but once there it 's meaning and life take on huge dimensions that many Russian writers and artists were moved by. I experience the same senseof "old souls" on the other side of the mountains in the Altai. They are animists and through that they use music as a powerful healing medicine.I wept with the camel and now I want a white colt! This is a must-see story for everyone. SOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! I would like to know more about the story..was it done just for the movie or is there a tradition to use music for healing?I did not want the movie to be over!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bebop63-1 The Weeping Camel may not have the special effects or the attention-getting action of some Hollywood films, but it is a beautiful and not-to-be missed movie in its own right. Apart from being a documentary, it is full of symbolism and meaning that can be seen in the everyday routines around which the family of Mongolian shepherds have built their existence: the shearing of the camels' hair to braid into halters to put on the camels,showing how nothing is wasted; the sprinkling of milk into the air or onto the baby camel to ensure luck and appeasement of the nature spirits that is part of the Mongolian religion ; the storytelling and singing sessions inside the homely yurt. And, most remarkable of all and the highlight of the movie, the musical ritual consisting of a violinist on the horse-head fiddle and the woman's chanting designed to make the mother camel accept and suckle her newborn calf.The four generations of the family in the film, both genders and regardless of age (except for the youngest child who is around 1-2 years of age) work together doing everyday chores with an ease that suggests a contented acceptance of their way of living and the responsibilities that come with it. This is a culture in touch with the flow of life and nature in general, and the film shows links between the way the shepherds tend to their children and animals. It subtly but distinctly notes the way a leash keeps the toddler and baby camel from wandering off, similarly creating a connection between the lullaby a mother sings to put her child to sleep and the way violin music and chanting soothes a mother camel and charms her into accepting her rejected offspring. At first, the creature's response seems to be of the "what the. . . ?" variety, but then a magical transformation takes place as the musician plays on and the woman continues to sing and the family of shepherds watch expectantly. The effect that the music has on the other camels grazing nearby - watch their expressions, as if entranced - and eventually on the mother camel - Imgen Tenee as she is named in the credits - as she eventually gives in to suckle her baby and sheds tears as if in repentance of her erring ways is - as the Mastercard commercial would say - "priceless" Both moving and memorable, this sequence lies at the heart of the film, albeit close to the end, a moment of restoration as uplifting as anything I've encountered in recent years. Wisely, the producers of the movie take pains to avoid any anthropomorphizing or patronizing attitude, insisting every aspect should be seen through the shepherds' eyes as if the viewers were there right with them, sharing their joys, frustrations, victories, etc. The approach serves as a potent reminder that the simplest things can also be the most powerful and compelling.Throughout The Weeping Camel, Davaa and Falorni maintain an unobtrusive distance, allowing insights to emerge rather than thrusting them upon us. Most effectively, it allows us to discover the sharp contrast between the simple uncomplicated nomadic pastoralist way of living in one of the remotest areas of the world (the Gobi Desert)and the so-called modern Western living. Sadly though, the former appears to be fast disappearing or encroached by the latter - as can be seen in the final scenes of the film when the shepherd family acquire a television and the eldest boy is working on the satellite dish to get proper reception.

Jessica Carvalho ''Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel'' is told to be a ''documentary'', but I don't get exactly what is the purpose of it. It shows the story of a nomadic family and the troubles they have with a camel and her offspring, since the mother refuses to give maternal love to her baby. And that's it. More then one hour only watching camels, the desert, and part of the nomadic family's life. Don't get me wrong, the cinematography is beautiful and I do enjoy watching different movies from the ones from Hollywood, specially when all the people in this movie were real and not actors, but where is the plot of watching this movie? That's what I don't really get.I found interesting, however,the ritual with music they did for the mother camel accept her baby back. I would love to see a research about that, because I've never heard about music healing an animal's trauma.The movie is not bad, only without purpose.