{"id":7091,"date":"2010-02-22T23:58:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T07:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2010-02-23T06:59:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:59:18","slug":"when-the-dragon-swallowed-the-sun-dirk-simon-2010-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7091","title":{"rendered":"When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (Dirk Simon, 2010): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=796\">Nitsa Pomerleau<\/a>. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2010.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1379210\/\">When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun<\/a> <\/em>is the result of director \u00a0Dirk Simon&#8217;s seven-year , trans-global journey to understand the social, politcal, and spiritual situation in Tibet. \u00a0This documentary features controversial footage from \u00a0India, China, and Tibet; and interviews \u00a0exiled students as well as some of the key leaders of the struggle to free Tibet, namely \u00a0Archbishop Desmond Tutu, \u00a0and the Dalai Llama.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interactive, multi-media response to Simon&#8217;s journey:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wegart.sk\/images\/artists\/bjork_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"386\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i12.photobucket.com\/albums\/a242\/bucklberry\/band%20pics\/400px-Thom_Yorke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a documentary has a musical score by Thom Yorke (of radiohead), Damien Rice, \u00a0Phillip Glass and Bjork, you ought to pay attention and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VF1qeSY0fDU\">listen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-QW6QTl8sU&amp;feature=related\">listen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=An5LjwTjLRk&amp;feature=related\">listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Nitsa Pomerleau. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2010. When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun is the result of director \u00a0Dirk Simon&#8217;s seven-year , trans-global journey to understand the social, politcal, and spiritual situation in Tibet. \u00a0This documentary features controversial footage from \u00a0India, China, and Tibet; and interviews \u00a0exiled students as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}