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To me, this movie is perfection.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The acting in this movie is really good.

I think it's way too easy to get carried away by the exoticism of a place, culture/ people and time.check another review on the film on this site: http://worldfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aa022001a.htmcopy paste from the review:International cinema lets you glimpse other worlds stranger than any science fiction movie can imagine and look at societies completely alien to our own. But films from elsewhere also often tell strange stories in surprising ways because film-making and storytelling follow different conventions. Himalaya shows the proud and beautiful people of Nepal in their natural habitat - but it doesn't let its heroes tell their own stories. The result is as pretty to look at, as instructive, and as emotionally uninvolving as a coffee table book.

''Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef'' is the second movie I watched with Lhakpa Tsamchoe, an excellent actress who I saw for the first time in ''Seven Years in Tibet''. I discovered here in IMDb that she only worked in these two movies in her life, and that she is not actually an actress, as everyone else who acts in this movie are not actors. This is very surprising, because all their emotions and the scenes really looks made by professionals! 'Himalaya'' is a french production, in which the big interest is to show some of the Tibetan traditions that are disappearing in their culture. This movie also received an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Film, and it really deserved it. Showing the stubborn and proud Tinle,who refuses to let Karma, his son's friend, to become the new chief,suspecting that he killed his son. Tinle is old, but anyway he organizes another caravan to take the salt to trade for grains and food. But their trip will not be fast and many difficulties will be in their way...

In order to get the DVD of Himalaya I have to order it from the USA - it's not available in the UK (presumably something to do with our imperialist past). I saw the film three or four years ago and some of the images still live with me. Immediately after seeing it I was enthusiastically recommending it to friends all of whom asked about the plot. It felt somehow inadequate to reply that it's a story about a dispute between two Tibetan yak-herders. All I know is that it's one of the few films I actively want to see again. Not necessarily because of the plot, which is serviceable, or even the acting, which is fresh and vibrant, but it's a wonderful feast for the eye with some of the most compelling images I have ever seen.

Great landscapes, a very true movie. It deals with a way of life we've forgotten, a "hard" life, making you enjoy every small treat, happy and grateful for anything you get, thinking that you might not have it tomorrow or next year. It's a movie I was learning a lot from. It is fascinating for the great landscapes, the nomadic life we never experienced, the incredible freedom of mind which can be given by such a hard life. It is a good example of how a movie can tell the truth (and still be a great story); it will maybe help preserving the rapidly disappearing cultures of the "roof of the world".