REVIEW – Nominated for an Oscar, this poetic parable by Pawo Choyning Dorji charms the viewer and takes them to unusual places.
This film, which would like to embrace the codes of Western cinema, is unlike any other. Located in Bhutan, The Monk and the Gun, by Pawo Choyning Dorji, has this almost naive freshness of works of gushing.
After a first film, released in 2019, The School at the End of the World , this filmmaker, who was first a photographer and producer, continues his work to highlight his native land, Bhutan. Nicknamed “the country of Gross National Happiness”, this small mountain state landlocked between China and India lived for many years under the authority of a monarch appreciated by his people. In 2006, this king, aged 51, decided to abdicate to open his country to globalization. The Bhutanese, a mainly rural people, then discovered television, the internet… and democracy.
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That’s the whole point of this Oscar-nominated feature film. The Monk and the Gun begins by showing breathtaking landscapes, notably a field of pink flowers as far as the eye can see, while in the distance…
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