The Tiger’s Nest: our opinion on the film

To help him escape poachers, a twelve-year-old boy sets out on a journey through South Asia in the company of Mukti, a little tiger. Rich in breathtaking panoramas, his journey on the big screen however lacks originality. The Tiger’s Nestin cinemas from February 15.

The Tiger’s Nest: the story

Balmani has been alone in the world since his mother died in the violent earthquake that rocked Nepal. After this disaster, he was sent to an orphanage located hundreds of kilometers from Kathmandu, where he lived. Despite all the delicacy and empathy shown to him by Hanna, the director of this institution, a woman who experienced a similar tragedy when she was a teenager, Balmani did not get used to this uprooting and decided to run away to return home. .

In the forest, he crosses paths with lawless men who kill, although she belongs to an endangered species, a large Bengal tigress in order to take her cub, Mukti, and resell it on the black market. But Balmani succeeds in freeing baby tiger. He embarks on a great expedition aimed at bringing his protege to the Tiger’s Nest, a monastery built on a cliff at an altitude of more than 3000 meters, in Taktsang in Bhutan, which his mother has often spoken to him about. There, Mukti will be in a safe place, as the members of this community consider him a sacred animal and will cherish him before he can be released into the wild. But Balmani’s odyssey will turn out to be very complicated…

For her part, Hannah will set off in pursuit of this boy to whom she is very attached, not without also encountering disappointments along the way.

Starting at what age ?

7-8 years old. The themes of the defense of the animal world, the preservation of the environment and the description offered by The Tiger’s Nest events that make you grow, will speak to young audiences

The opinion of MAFAMILYZEN

Like the Frenchman Gilles de Maistre, author of numerous documentaries before venturing into fiction, Brando Quilici, the Argentinian director of Tiger’s Nest, has long made films in the United States for channels such as the National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel. This can be felt in the beauty of the images and angles of view he offers us, from the Nepalese jungle of Chitwan to the eternal snows of the Himalayan peaks. Places that are all the more exceptional in that the cameras have rarely interfered there.

We also award only good points to the main actor, Sunny Pawar, with whom we had already met six years ago in the moving Leo: The Way Back. He interacts naturally with his four-legged partner, and never seems overwhelmed by carrying (almost) all the scenes of the story.

Alas, the problem of Tiger’s Nestis that he looks like a twin brother to all the films released in recent years around the theme of the complicity between the child and the animal. Of Mia and the white lion To Belle and Sebastian Passing by Mystery And The wolf and the lion, we have the impression that, even if the places, the contexts and the characters change, to always unroll the same script reels. The first, that of the friendship which makes it possible to triumph over everything, including the fiercest and most amoral adversaries, the second being resilience.

We are therefore (still) waiting for the feature film which will offer a truly disruptive story on the subject. But unfortunately it’s not that one…

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