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The Adopted Son

Beshkempir (AKA The Adopted Son)

1998

Aktan Arym Kubat

Mirlan Abdykalykov, Albina Imasheva, Adir Abilkassimov, Talai Mederov ...

6.5

41

Drama In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He plays with friends, horsing around, sniggering about sex, going to an outdoor movie. He works, fishing and making bricks of mud. And, he's starting to notice girls. He and his best friend fight, and he learns to his consternation that he's a foundling. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Beshkempir' has the fluency and candour of something by Satyajit Ray and its ecstatic retrieval of memory makes me think of Fellini’s 'Amarcord'. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"What this gentle, touching film shows is a group of hard-working human beings living their lives and experiencing the same family and peer-group pressures that apply to people everywhere.	POS

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