Bhutan-born Khyentse Norbu, especially remembered for “Travellers and Magicians” (2003) and “Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait” (2016), is a director who also happens to be a Buddhist lama known as Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. He teaches Buddhism and authored several significant publications on embracing Buddhism in the contemporary world. For a viewer knowing his background, “Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Moustache”, a movie no less mysterious than its title, won’t be a big surprise.
Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Moustache screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Norbu this time brings us to Kathmandu. The location choice doesn’t seem to be random. The Nepalese capital city at the feet of the Himalayas, attracting hordes of adventure-seekers, pilgrims, monks, foreign hippie tourists, is a buzzing merry maze where traditions meet modernity and the sacrum mixes with the profane.
The director, in his eccentric existential cum spiritual drama,...
Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Moustache screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Norbu this time brings us to Kathmandu. The location choice doesn’t seem to be random. The Nepalese capital city at the feet of the Himalayas, attracting hordes of adventure-seekers, pilgrims, monks, foreign hippie tourists, is a buzzing merry maze where traditions meet modernity and the sacrum mixes with the profane.
The director, in his eccentric existential cum spiritual drama,...
- 11/28/2021
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
Told he’s been cursed and will die within a week, a Kathmandu man desperately seeks the elusive spirit that might save him in “Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache.” Though playing upon Tibetan Buddhist concepts, this latest film from Bhutan-born writer-director Khyentse Norbu doesn’t use traditional religious mythology as a springboard for horror, as in recent “The Vigil” or any number of exorcism-related titles. Instead, . Abramorama’s global release kicks off with a virtual cinema launch on April 9.
Ponytailed Tenzin (Tsering Tashi Gyalthang) has ambitious plans to open “the best coffee shop in all of Nepal.” To that end, he’s raised capital from various sources, including the mother who encouraged him toward music studies he’s not particularly suited for. Scouting potential locations, he pokes around an old temple abandoned since it suffered earthquake damage. That trespass appalls best friend Jachung (Tulku Kungzang), a fellow Tibetan exile,...
Ponytailed Tenzin (Tsering Tashi Gyalthang) has ambitious plans to open “the best coffee shop in all of Nepal.” To that end, he’s raised capital from various sources, including the mother who encouraged him toward music studies he’s not particularly suited for. Scouting potential locations, he pokes around an old temple abandoned since it suffered earthquake damage. That trespass appalls best friend Jachung (Tulku Kungzang), a fellow Tibetan exile,...
- 4/9/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Award-winning director Khyentse Norbu’s newest film is the intriguingly titled Looking For A Lady With Fangs and A Moustache. Set in Kathmandu, the film’s tale is the journey of a worldly 30-year-old man, Tenzin, who is caught between the modern and traditional worlds of Nepal. Somewhat driven and obsessive, Tenzin is focused single-mindedly on creating Kathmandu’s best coffee shop. Though he disparages superstition, Tenzin is suddenly tormented by peculiar and recurring dreams and images that signal his imminent death. On the advice of a cool monk and the Master of the Left-Hand Lineage (secret Buddhist wisdom lineage), a sceptical Tenzin must seek out a very special woman – a “Dakini” who may have a moustache, fangs and a third eye… What happens on Tenzin’s journey? Does he find the Dakini and live a new life? Well, you will have to wait to realize and experience what happens...
- 4/6/2021
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, Khyentse Norbu’s new film from South Asia will be released in North America. The director’s past films have played Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Venice and other top film festivals. Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, which had its global premiere at the 17th Morelia International Film Festival (Ficm), was also an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
Abramorama acquired the acquisition of world rights for the Nepali production, Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache and plan to release it this spring, in April. The film is executive produced by Olivia Harrison, produced by Max Dipesh Khatri, and features cinematography by Mark Lee Ping-bing (In the Mood for Love).
The mystery drama tells the story of Tenzin, a modern Tibetan entrepreneur, utterly skeptical of ancient, mystical beliefs, who is suddenly haunted by frightening dreams and hallucinations.
Abramorama acquired the acquisition of world rights for the Nepali production, Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache and plan to release it this spring, in April. The film is executive produced by Olivia Harrison, produced by Max Dipesh Khatri, and features cinematography by Mark Lee Ping-bing (In the Mood for Love).
The mystery drama tells the story of Tenzin, a modern Tibetan entrepreneur, utterly skeptical of ancient, mystical beliefs, who is suddenly haunted by frightening dreams and hallucinations.
- 2/13/2021
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
"You don't have too much time left." Abramorama has unveiled an official trailer for a strange, mysterious Nepali film titled Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, which is the perfect kind of title to grab your attention. This originally premiered in 2019 at film festivals, and was selected for last year's Tribeca Film Festival, now opening in cinemas worldwide starting in April 2021. The story follows a Tibetan entrepreneur in Nepal who experiences hallucinations, which a sage tells him are omens of his impending death. Filmed in a mesmerizing & magical Kathmandu, Tenzin will have seven days to save his life: a most unconventional, sacred journey into feminine energy. That sounds very cool. "I hope this film will transport audiences to a profound, mystical, and yet very real and accessible dimension of life with which our modern world is sadly and rapidly losing touch” states Khyentse Norbu. The film stars Tsering Tashi Gyalthang as Tenzin.
- 2/12/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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