The Black Hen

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The Black Hen

2015

1h 30m

Drama

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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.

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

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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

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

A tough-love drama with shades of Bicycle Thieves.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 8, 2016

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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

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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

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Nikki Baughan

The List

A moving portrait of the effects of war on ordinary lives.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 5, 2016

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SoyROXET

I didn't like it, is boring 😴

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/26/22

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Audience Member

Best movie i have known

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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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

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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

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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