Wolf

Xioahan, Eli, & I went to a movie yesterday.  I had thought Wolf Totem was a Chinese movie but — standing outside by the poster, waiting — I realized it was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.  Off the top of my head, I remembered him for directing…

• The Quest for Fire
• The Bear
• The Enemy at the Gates

Only afterward did I realize he also directed…

• The Name of the Rose
• The Lover
• Seven Years in Tibet

The last of which got him banned from filming in China until this film.  It’s basically Dances with Wolves…with wolves.  End of a spiritual civilization, nature degraded, etc.