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Summary: Set amid the cast expanse of South Mongolia's Gobi Desert, this film follows the adventures of a family of camel herders who face a crisis when one mother camel rejects her newborn, following a particularly difficult delivery. Invoking an ancient ritual, the family sends two of its young boys to the capital city to enlist the aid of a musician whom they believe will coax the mother camel into nursing her baby. (ThinkFilm)
A gorgeous desert. Great camels. A glimpse into a foreign culture. Heart-wrenching music. Earth philosophy. The old world vs the new world. How is it possible that all these fantastic elements came together into a big pile of boring???
Oh Christ this is fucking awful. Boring as hell, not terribly informative, not pretty and sometimes downright ugly at which to look (the birth of a camel, in its full amniotic glory). One of the rare motion pictures that gives you absolutely nothing
This is a documentary that basically crushed me. But at least it ends okay. It's slow and not very exciting and there's a lot of shots of camel faces, but if you're willing to get emotionally involved with a bunch of camels, then watch this.
A nice little slice-of-life documentary about what was to me a relatively alien culture I knew nothing about. Still, it made little to no impression on me with it's immense lack of anything informative.
This is not for everyone. But its one of the best I have experienced. If you like simple lifestyles laden with idyllic landscapes living in harmony with all living beings around you and the environment.. then u might like this. So much is conveyed without actually telling it. The conflict of values/desires between the generations and how the families are adapting to it .. are portrayed well. I liked the visit to the city - change of scenery from naturally beautiful people to makeup laden faces.
An attentive documentary with an earnest voice. The pace here somehow give association to Herzog, but the calm images never radiate the same brutal and poetic irrepressibility found in his work. The minimal dialogue, and lack of a narrator, focalize the attention on the images themselves - the only sounds in long periods are that of the wind and the weeping camel. Very appealing - if not excessively great.
Without any narrator or any explanations to guide you (only some events staged for the camera), Weeping Camel offers something very different for viewers bored with standard movie fare, and is one of those films that changes your perspective on life on earth in indelible fashion.
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