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In the wake of a king's abdication of power, an ancient culture tries to modernize in this comedy from the maker of 2019's “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.”
We begin with a young monk, Tashi, attendant to a lama, or spiritual leader, traversing a peaceful field to a mountain village, Ura. He's on his way to hear an unusual request: The lama needs a gun. Or two. Before the full moon comes in a few days. "Things need to be made right," he says, cryptically.
We begin with a young monk, Tashi, attendant to a lama, or spiritual leader, traversing a peaceful field to a mountain village, Ura. He's on his way to hear an unusual request: The lama needs a gun. Or two. Before the full moon comes in a few days. "Things need to be made right," he says, cryptically.
“Why are you teaching us to be so rude?” the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in “The Monk and the Gun.”
It’s a question both poignant and biting, because the “tea.