L‘LAST MOON OF SEPTEMBER
Type: ecological-intimate drama
Direction: Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam. With Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, Tenuun-Erdene Garamkhland, Damvid Sovd, Davaasamba Sharaw, Tserendarizav Dashnyam
«I wanted this film to be a love letter to Mongolian cultural heritage» and the ambition could not have been better fulfilled: you come away as if bewitched by watching this filmmoved by the story it tells but above all fascinated by such a distant and mysterious world.
Like the protagonist (played by the debut director), the viewer is also invited to take a journey: transplanted to the city for years, Tulgaa is called to his father’s bedsideleft to live in the remote hills of Mongolia, and decides to stay there after the death of his parent to complete the mowing of the fields.
A scene from the film “The Last Moon of September” by and with Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam.
The friendship with little Tuntuuleiwho lives with his grandparents while his mother works in the city, helps to understand why adults want to escape the poverty of the countryside.
But poverty and daily fatigue end up enhancing the subtle charm of that world so distant and differentwhich the camera seems to caress with its slow panoramic movements: something magical and hypnotic, distant and magnetic, capable of making us discover another way of living and thinking.
For those who want to discover the charm of the Mongolian plains.
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