Eternal beauty
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Scene from An Eternal Lamb. [Global Times] |
Beautiful, poetic and natural as it is, the film is also sentimental and its stories of two women is full of pathos, as one is hated for chasing true love, while the other gives up her happiness for responsibility.
"Actually, this sentimental feeling always exists among the Kazakh people, [and] probably herdsmen all over the world. They are traveling and being separated from people around them all the time, knowing that they can do nothing about it," said Huermanbieke. "The movie wants to express that feeling."
She added that more than half of the Kazahhs' folk songs are about separation.
"Lamb is a very sentimental creature among animalsand is most special to the Kazakh people," Gao said. "And the ancestors of Kazakh people define the meaning of beauty as a lamb. [It] has a spirit of sacrifice and a life of not living for themselves."
Although the story is about a minority, Huermanbieke hopes to express a common value from the story that may apply to all ethnic groups.
"No matter which ethnic group people are from, the attitude they treat life with should be basically the same."
Talking about his expectations of the film, Gao said he hoped it could be watched and appreciated by more people, as he is also working to get the film screening opportunities in other Chinese cities and abroad.
The subtitles for An Eternal Lamb are in English and Chinese but the production companies have prepared French, Russian and Arabic for precisely this reason. "It is different from commercial films, so I do not want to compare it with those. In China, art films that pursue real beauty are rare, I just want to fill the space."
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