Forget the name: Once Upon a Time in Tibet is no sprawling epic. While it's a good, solid effort, Dai Wei's second feature is an unapologetic throwback to the nationalist pathos in mainland productions like Feng Xiaoning's 'War and Peace' trilogy (Red River Valley, Lovers' Grief Over the Yellow River, Purple Sunset). With a wide-eyed foreigner adrift in the wilderness, a period setting wracked by armed conflict and a cast of plucky, hardscrabble peasant folk, a soft-focus, pastoral colour palette and sentimental score, you could tell people Once Upon a Time... came out twenty years ago and few of them would suspect any different.Despite what the background scenery might suggest, the story's actually fairly low-key: Robert (Joshua Hannum), a Us officer in World War II...
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