6.5
Paranoid Park
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If Only I Could Hibernate (2024)
January 10, 20241h 38mMN
6.5
16 votes
Overview
Ulzii, a teenager from a poor neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar, is determined to win a sciences-physics competition to get a scholarship. His illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside, leaving him and his brother and sister in the middle of winter. Ulzii wanders around at night looking for things to burn for heat while preparing for the national competition.
Director
Zoljargal PurevdashWriter
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Mongolian
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Amygdala FilmsUrban FactoryNew Mongol Academy
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7.0In a city well lit and dotted with numerous hilltop communication masts, we meet the young "Ulzii" (Battsooj Uurtsaikh) who is living quite a contrasting existence with his mother and three siblings in a yurt than has an one-ring electric cooker and a coal burning stove. He is a gifted physics student whose teacher (Batzorig Sukhbaatar) is trying to coax him to enter a competition and focus more on his studies, but it's increasingly clear that this young man is very much the breadwinner. His recently widowed mother reverts to the bottle when things get tough and yearns to return to the rural,…
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