Already his sixth feature, Pema Tseden is the lead figure of the quiet surge of Tibetan cinema since the noughties, JINPA is an allegorical tale set in the few-trodden Kekexili plateau in China's Qinghai province, an immense, desolate, desert no-man's land whose denizens are few and far between, and it is where, the truck driver Jinpa (played by actor Jinpa, unkempt, macho and wearing a pair of dark sunglass presumably as an in-joke to the film's name producer Wang Kai-War) run over a sheep materializing out of nowhere, which gives the film its original Chinese title "I ran over a sheep", also the name of Tseden's eponymous novel which the film is partly based on.
Opening with a Kham Tibetan "tit-for-tat" credo of revenge, JINPA fuses the brevity of its narrative with Tseden's astounding flourishes of visualizing a barren land in its pristine rawness (a majestic long take eyeing the truck streak diagonally across its 4:3 academic ratio frame in its full stretch)....
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Opening with a Kham Tibetan "tit-for-tat" credo of revenge, JINPA fuses the brevity of its narrative with Tseden's astounding flourishes of visualizing a barren land in its pristine rawness (a majestic long take eyeing the truck streak diagonally across its 4:3 academic ratio frame in its full stretch)....
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