Summer Pasture review by Ethan Alter

NYC Film Critic

2010-07-31

Summer Pasture
Directed by Lynn True and Nelson Walker
Rating ***

The Tibetan grasslands serve as a remarkable backdrop for this portrait of a family of nomads attempting to carry on a way of life that's slowly but surely disappearing. Filmed over the course of one summer season at the pasture of married couple Locho and Yama, the documentary captures the rhythm of their everyday lives, while also getting them to open up about their hopes for the future and memories of their tumultuous past. (Among the traumatic events that they've had to endure include illness, infidelity and the death of two infant children.)

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