**** (4/5)
The best Belgian film in many years! The impressive shots of the grand steppes recall the spectacular photography of Zhang Yimou. It is the mysterious script, however, which really had a transcendental effect on us. The storylines are so powerfully woven together that Khadak results in a majestic meditation about past and present, tradition and modernity, myth and reality.
Zone 03
**** (4/4)
The symbolic story, breathtakingly photographed by Bartas-cameraman Rimvydas Leipus and purified by editor Nico Leunen, develops into a poetically inspired meditation.
De Morgen
**** (4/5)
A poetic, magic-realist film. Words are subordinate to images. Of fairy tale beauty, just like the soundtrack.
Het Laatste Nieuws **** (4/4)
The best Belgian film in years. Brosens and Woodworth succeed, like Werner Herzog, in extracting another reality from that which they are filming.
Zone 02
*** (3/4)
A breathtaking vision about Mongolia in transition. With painfully beautiful image compositions and ravishing musical phrases, Brosens and Woodworth lead the viewer into a trance where the pure aesthetics will bring him to tears. This masterful film poem is probably the most stunning film-diamond ever cut by a Flemish filmmaker.
De Standaard
*** (3/4)
A dazzlingly beautiful magic realist fable about the clash between tradition and modernity, shamanism and capitalism, fact and fable. A fascinating heimat-fable of pictorial beauty.
Focus Knack
*** (3/4)
An extraordinary beautiful magic-realist parable. Oh, how beautiful intelligent cinema can be!
Filmmagie
*** (3/4)
A touching film, in a magical fluorescent floating elegy, lamenting the doomed lifestyle of the Mongolian steppe nomads.
Humo
*** (3/4)
A fascinating work of great beauty in its form. The result is a film that is seemingly disjointed but its narrative, far from imposing Western codes upon another civilization, lets itself be carried by the cultural context of the story. One thinks of Jia Zhang-Ke for its political metaphor, Lynch for its imagination and even Zhang Yimou, for its epic dimensioné A sublime last half hour.
La Libre Belgique
*** (3/4)
Magnificently staged and benefiting from a genuinely chiselled photography, Khadak is a fable that brings to mind for its content the greatest Asian films of the early 90s and for its style the great classics of the heroic times of Soviet cinema.
La Dernière Heure
*** (3/4)
Khadak bewitches viewers with breathtaking images, powerful symbolism, and a strong dose of poetry.
Brussel Deze Week
*** (3/5)
Strong performances and striking images.
The Bulletin
** (2/4)
Khadak offers us moments of pure magic, often linked to the music, which is a liberating trance. A strange experience from which one cannot emerge unscathed.
Le Soir
9/10
Visually, Khadak is an unbelievably impressive film.
Het Nieuwsblad
16/20
A lyrical work of great beauty.
L'Echo
