Word: herdsman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miniature; it has an artist's attention to the harsh allure of physical and psychological landscapes. Xiu Xiu would be memorable if only for its stars: Lu Lu, now 17, an elfin charmer whom Chen found studying English in San Francisco, and the Tibetan actor Lopsang as a herdsman who befriends Xiu Xiu. But the movie is more than a star-is-born showcase. This story of a girl who rolls down the slope of degradation, and finally has no power but to choose her own grim fate, is a worthy cinematic sister to Mouchette, Robert Bresson's great document...
...through the gate to the communal wateringhole, Museveni softly calls each by name. "This one is Gaju Ya Bihogo," he says. "That one is Kiremba Kya Ngabo. The gray one over there is descended from my grandfather's herd." Surveying the cattle with an expert eye, he asks his herdsman why one is limping, who is the mother of this young one. "Good cows," he says, "need good politics...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. Three Warner Herzog documentaries on Thursday, Oct. 22. Herdsman of the Sun at 5:25 and 8 p.m. La Soufriere and The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Stiner at 4, 6:30 and 9:10 p.m. Boston area premiere of Ox from Friday, Oct. 23 to Thursday, Oct. 29 at 4, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. Also a Saturday and Sunday matinee...