NYAFF XIX Review: THE LEGEND OF TOMIRIS, A Tale As Epic As Its Origins
As Well Go USA presses on with its usual venture into tastemaker territory, their recent acquisition of Kazakh filmmaker Akan Satayev’s twelfth feature fim, The Legend Of Tomiris, is set to grant an audience for this year’s virtual installer of the nineteenth New York Asian Film Festival. The film opened in Kazakhstan late last year, and while it reportedly drew a bit of controversy in the process among historians with respect to certain language aspects, that’s not to say the film doesn’t do a fine job of carrying its weight from start to finish. Satayev’s grand-scale Herodotian epic spans a good two-and-a-half hours for its duration, as it immerses you in a VO-narrated flashback to a time when the nomadic Saka tribes ruled the steppe. Our story focuses on the title character of Tomiris, raised from birth within the Massagetae, led by tribal chief Spargap (Murat Bisenbin), raised, loved and […]
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