Snow Leopard

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Snow Leopard

2023

1h 49m

Drama

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11 Reviews

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A father and son argue over whether they should kill a snow leopard that broke into their home and killed 9 sheep.

Jordan Cronk

Sight & Sound

Nov 11

Snow Leopard is quintessential Pema Tseden: vivid, visceral, and illuminating.

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Filipe Freitas

Always Good Movies

Apr 25

2/5

The humor wears thin over time, and the film’s polished aesthetic renders some scenes overly staged.

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Sarah Kent

The Arts Desk

11/25/2024

2/5

CGI and clever editing make the hunt remarkably convincing; as the terrorised sheep try desperately to escape slaughter, their panic is palpable. Sadly, though, all the other visual effects are clunky beyond measure.

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Amarsanaa Battulga

easternKicks.com

08/01/2024

With Pema Tseden’s subdued storytelling, the film’s social allegory of this human-animal relationship takes full shape in the final act.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

02/25/2024

7

“Snow Leopard” is an excellent movie and a rather fitting goodbye for a filmmaker who left the world at the top of his game.

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Siddhant Adlakha

Truthdig

10/12/2023

It’s a striking final vision with which Tseden leaves us: a place that embodies an understanding, or perhaps even a latent human desire, to live in harmony with nature

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Jun 2

核心冲突展现得很好，小范围内的调度与视觉呈现极具张力。涉及到的议题很多，城乡、汉藏、公私等各种二元关系被容纳进了藏区动物保护的实践操作之中。在“雪豹喇嘛”钟情于雪豹的背后，一种暧昧且非现代的解决思路若隐若现，引人遐思。

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Synopsis

A father and son argue over whether they should kill a snow leopard that broke into their home and killed 9 sheep.

Director: Pema Tseden
Screenwriter: Pema Tseden
Production Co: Shenzhen Niubizi PicturesContribute, Mani Stone Pictures, Khorgas Lingyu Pictures, Beijing Nanji Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Runtime: 1h 49m