Somewhere between “Planet Earth” and a historical drama lies “Wolf Totem,” a sweeping Chinese epic from French director Jean-Jacques Annaud. Taking place in the throes of Communist fervor in 1967 ...
A true story that manages to seem both mythical and too fantastic to have really happened, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s epic 3-D “Wolf Totem” is ultimately a hymn and a plea for ecological harmony. In 1967 ...
Critic's review: 3 stars It’s 1967, at the start of China’s cultural revolution, and two students are sent to Inner Mongolia Their job is to teach tribal people on the far outskirts of civilization ...
Set against the stunning geography of Inner Mongolia, “Wolf Totem” is a boy-and-his-dog story, writ large — as in Imax 3D large. Although the actors, both human and wolf, would command a screen of any ...
With its sweeping Mongolian panoramas and majestic, real-life wolf packs, “Wolf Totem” should lure lovers of nature into the theater. But director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 3-D action drama will also ...
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports criticism of the “fake” Mongolian culture portrayed in the 2004 novel “Wolf Totem” and its current film adaptation: Guo Xuebo, a member of the China ...
Director Jean-Jacques Annaud had a fine bromance with a Mongolian wolf named Cloudy during the production of his latest film, “Wolf Totem,” which opens Friday. “It was very strange,” recalled the ...
Director Jean-Jacques Annaud had a fine bromance with a Mongolian wolf named Cloudy during the production of his latest film, “Wolf Totem,” now playing in limited release. “It was very strange,” says ...
Actors can be difficult, as any filmmaker knows. For French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, the solution was radical: Raise the performers from infancy, and they’ll do exactly what you want. In his new ...
A source close to China's Film Bureau says director Jia Zhangke failed in his attempt to get his art house drama 'Mountains May Depart' nominated in place of the period epic from French auteur ...
Jean Jacques Annaud had a chance to direct "Life of Pi," a 2012 film that went on to win four Academy Awards. But the French director of "Seven Years in Tibet," "The Name of the Rose" and "Enemy at ...
Somewhere between “Planet Earth” and a historical drama lies “Wolf Totem,” a sweeping Chinese epic from French director Jean-Jacques Annaud. Taking place in the throes of Communist fervor in 1967 ...
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