Additionally, the ads claim that L’Oreal Skin Genesis makes you feel “plumped up, tautened and with a dewy glow”. A dawny glow, yes; ditto a dewy sheen and a dewy moistness (but how often these days can you safely get away with experiencing a dewy moistness? Although the residents of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China are currently being yanked headlong out of the feudal fifteenth century straight into the capitalist 21st, they’ve yet to graduate to owning tellies and thus being subjected to vapidly glam ad campaigns. Understandably, the documentary’s makers refrained from prolonged inquiry into their efficacy (whatever the country, it doesn’t pay to probe any farmer equipped with his own explosive weaponry for long). A fascinating 12-month documentary portrait of a nation, A Year in Tibet juxtaposed the unchanging seasonal rhythms of a rural economy - gathering in the barley harvest; sun-drying dauds of cow dung into bricks - with the demands of a more modern age (filling in forms to ensure your children receive student loans for university). Read More