In this gentle fable from Bhutan, an American gun collector and a young monk match wits over what will happen to an antique gun, against the backdrop of the country’s first modernizing election in 2006
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Time: 107 min
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Awards
Tromso International Film Festival: Won Norwegian Peace Film Award
Fribourg International Film Festival: Won Feature Film
Cancouver Film Festival: Won Showcase Audience Award
Rome Film Fest: Won Special Jury Award
Mumbai Film Festival: Won Audience Choice Award
Illuminate Film Festival: Won Director's Choice Award
Won 6 Awards, nominated for 8 others
Reviews
Lusciously lensed by cinematographer Jigme Tenzing, the ensemble comedy examines how the country’s upcoming mock elections affect the titular monk, a rural family, an election official, and a desperate liaison from the city, all of whose lives collide in minor and major ways. Marya E. Gates/RogerEbert.com
The Monk and the Gun is a true crowd-pleaser, a poignant message wrapped up in a humorous and vibrant tale. Ferdosa Abdi/Screen Rant
Things come to a head in a way that is simultaneously slapstick-y and touching, and entirely in keeping with a movie that has never lost its sense of charm through an hour and a half of twists and turns and engaging mountain escapades. Steve Pond/The Wrap
An unexpectedly suspenseful shaggy dog story, as well as a pretty funny one, with subtly pointed barbs about American politics. Michael O’Sullivan/Washington Post
The film pulls off something truly bold: taking what are perhaps the most emotionally and symbolically loaded items in existence and subverting their meaning completely to end on a note of peace, joy, and hope for the future. Ross McIndoe/Slant Magazine
A droll, shrewdly satirical fable, in which Western values crash against a seemingly intransigent (but potentially more enlightened) South Asian culture. Peter DeBruge/Variety
Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates a global phenomenon of epic proportions. Portrayed by Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard”), Isabel experiences unfathomable personal loss and love as she crosses continents and cultures to craft one of the defining American books of our time. Inspired by the New York Times best-seller “Caste,” ORIGIN explores the mystery of history, the wonders of romance and a fight for the future of us all.
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Time: 121 min
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Awards
Virginia Film Festival: won Visionary Award and Audience Award
African American Film Critics Association: won Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actress
Black Film Critics Circle Awards" Won Best Actress
Won 6 Awards and nominated for 29 others
Reviews
Origin, Ava DuVernay’s audacious, ambitious adaptation of the equally audacious and ambitious book “Caste,” operates on so many levels at once that the effect is often dizzyingly disorienting. But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed. Ann Hornaday/Washington Post
The film will get people thinking and talking. The way DuVernay directs it, Origin is a swirling tornado of ideas. Peter DeBruge/Variety
Led by a beautiful performance by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, writer-director Ava DuVernay’s fact-based Origin is a profoundly moving and humanistic movie that explores a range of complex issues about race and culture through the lens of a woman coping with loss and grief. Karen Gordon/Original Cin
How do you make a movie about an intellectual argument? By putting a human face on it, which is what Ava DuVernay and acting force Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor do in this stunning provocation about race and class. Here's something rare: a movie that matters. Peter Travers/ABC News
The resulting docudrama is one of the most thought-provoking movies in recent years — the kind of film you’ll find impossible to forget, the kind of film you’ll want to discuss and debate with friends and colleagues. Richard Roeper/Chicago Sun Times
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