Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2008

Something's amiss in the state of Jiabo; the king is dead, the queen has married his brother, the prince is acting strangely and his girlfriend is crazy. Sound familiar?

Shanghai-born director and co-writer Sherwood Hu has adapted William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" to the rugged highlands of ancient Tibet. While taking several liberties with the original plot, the film represents a bold dramatic trip into a fanciful ancient land.

A visually ravishing historical epic with stunning scenery, richly saturated color, and lush costuming, Hu sets Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark in a completely new context. Richly suggestive of the play's enduring relevance for the modern world, the film re-invents and refreshes this classic story and in the struggle to face his destiny and fight his demons, a new king finds that above all, to thine own self, you must be true.

""Prince of the Himalayas"" is that rara avis in the world of cinema -- a film that is genuinely new and different. _ A cast composed entirely of Tibetan actors, speaking in their own tongue -- a movie first as far as anybody can tell -- gives this exhilarating epic an authenticity even if the antique world depicted largely is one of the imagination.
--Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter

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