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The Black Hen

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A temporary cease-fire allows the residents of a small Nepalese village to breathe a sigh of relief. Two young boys from different castes become close friends and raise a hen in hopes of selling the eggs.

Critics Reviews

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Tara Brady Irish Times With a nod to Robert Flaherty's ethnographs, director Min Bahadur Bham conveys a sense of centuries of unchanged, pre-industrial living, suddenly encroached by modernity. Rated: 3/5 Jan 1, 2017 Full Review Nigel Andrews Financial Times There's a rough and ready enchantment -- a magic of mood and landscape -- in the prizewinning Nepalese film The Black Hen. Rated: 4/5 Dec 27, 2016 Full Review Kevin Maher Times (UK) A tough-love drama with shades of Bicycle Thieves. Rated: 3/5 Dec 8, 2016 Full Review Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) A film of a remarkable visual force, Kalo Pothi seems a more interesting work in the anthropological aspect than in a cinematographic one. [Full review in Spanish] Apr 25, 2017 Full Review Aine O'Connor Sunday Independent (Ireland) Some of the acting is amateur but it works, leaving a sense of damage that honours the thousands of known casualties of the war. Rated: 4/5 Dec 19, 2016 Full Review Nikki Baughan The List A moving portrait of the effects of war on ordinary lives. Rated: 3/5 Dec 5, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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SoyROXET I didn't like it, is boring 😴 Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/26/22 Full Review Audience Member Best movie i have known Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a cultural movie figuring the truth circumstance of nepal during 2001 AD where it frames about the two undeatchable friends and their journey to get their hen back and too the movie has strongly depicted linking events Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member What a great movie hope slimier movies come out in Nepal. 100% recommend watching. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A temporary cease-fire allows the residents of a small Nepalese village to breathe a sigh of relief. Two young boys from different castes become close friends and raise a hen in hopes of selling the eggs.
Director
Min Bahadur Bham
Producer
Min Bahadur Bham, Catherine Dussart, Anna Kachko
Screenwriter
Min Bahadur Bham, Abinash Bikram Shah
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Nepali
Runtime
1h 30m