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Mongolian Cinema on the Cusp of International Breakout, Says Director of Venice Title ‘City of Wind’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “City of Wind” depicts a version of Mongolian everyday life that is both traditional and modern.

Ulaanbaatar is shown as messy and sprawlingly urban in a fashion that will be familiar to millions of city dwellers in Asia — even if there are yurts in the front garden.

Presented in Venice’s Horizons section, and then Toronto, “City” starts as a story of a shaman, who is still of school age. Its opening scenes deliver a deliciously slow reveal of the boy savant and, soon after, a challenge to his supposed authority.

But by the second reel, it has done away with much of the exploration of the contradiction between the boy’s age and inexperience and his apparent insight.

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