Joan of Arc of Mongolia
Time Out says
Thanks to subsidy from German TV, Ottinger has carved out a niche for herself as the foremost lesbian adventurist film-maker in Europe. This particular farrago imagines four disparate women meeting on the Trans-Siberian Express (where their repartee falls pitifully short of the Noël Coward tone it aspires to), and then finding themselves hijacked by a nomadic Mongolian princess and dragged through a tour of 'exotic' Mongolian culture that changes their lives. The assumptions about western and eastern cultures on which this rests are every bit as repulsive as they sound, and don't stand up to a moment's thought; but the really nauseating thing about the movie is its phony reverence for Mongolian traditions, seen as a matriarchal web of ethnic ceremonies and unfathomable secrets. Shameless.
Details
Release details
Duration:
165 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Ulrike Ottinger
Screenwriter:
Ulrike Ottinger
Cast:
Delphine Seyrig
Irm Hermann
Jean Marais
Christoph Eichhorn
Gillian Scalici
Inés Sastre
Xu Re Huor
Peter Kern
Irm Hermann
Jean Marais
Christoph Eichhorn
Gillian Scalici
Inés Sastre
Xu Re Huor
Peter Kern