Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Steineded How sad is this?

LLee9999 I'd like to thank this film's director & producer for introducing the Tibetan culture to the world as well as making such a wonderful production! The music is just amazing and it reaches the deep side of my heart all the time! People have lived in the Himalayan mountains for centuries but the world still knows so little about them. Through this film I've realized their lifestyle is so different from ours; but yet in human nature they are no different from people from the rest of the world. Are the people & their culture too "exotic" to most of us, or most of us are too busy living the lives that are only familiar to us?I'd also like to take a bow to people who live in the Himalayan mountains and everyone who was involved in making this wonderful production. Truly this is a MASTERPIECE!

milipradhan44 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.

Jessica Carvalho ''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...

Atavisten On the rooftop of the world we follow the indigenous people of Nepal and their struggles between generations and the picking of a new leader. I am very glad to find a film that is (at least seems) true to the people and their culture without passing any judgment. I hope there would be many more of these to come.As a film its whereabouts of course play an important role, and it really gives you a feel for their struggles. This is people you care about so you would not see them hurt. Not so deep in your heart you know they wont be hurt much either, meaning its a 'safe' trip. This making it appeal to the whole family and in the same way taking away some 'tooth'.