NYAFF 2022 Review: ONE AND FOUR Evens The Odds With Solid Direction
Anyone out here in the West looking to familiarize themselves with actor and poet Jinpa can do so with a few possible selections, including leading Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden’s sixth feature, Jinpa, as well as Zhang Yang’s 2016 adventure drama, Soul On A String. Otherwise, audiences are currently welcome to embrace the actor’s latest role in a searing new Chinese-Tibetan western noir from Tseden’s son, debut filmmaker Jigme Trinley in the form of One And Four, a film that squarely reunites the star with Tseden who produced the pic for its local release last year. The wintery Western noir is set in the late 1990s in the mountains where we meet Sanggye (Jinpa), a rural forest ranger whose desolate worklife is nothing short of dilapidated, he can’t sleep, and he’s currently wrestling with a hangover despite it being against the rules for him to drink on the job. The latter […]