Lu Huang,
Yang Youan,
Zhang Yuli,
He Yunle,
Jia Yinggao
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Chinese director Li Yang's meller Blind Mountain unabashedly tackles the issue of white slavery. Lu Huang stars as Bai Xuemei, a student conned by traffickers and sold as a wife to an isolated village... read more
DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
Stats: 128 reviews
Second part of an unofficial trilogy by Yang Li,the shadowy prelude is moving into a lavishing tale of filthy spiritual tone!Should I repeat that?Better watch this exploding torture yourselves,the torment of unfair treatment,aye,where the mountains fear to roar..
Blind Mountain told a story and presented an issue that is still an on going in some small country sides in China. The complex issues and hard to resolved solution lie underneath the surface of the story, people who watch this film have to dig deep to appreciate the value of this... read more
Blind Mountain is an essay on the collision of traditional and contemporary culture. It's not pedantic, nor is it belittling to the realities of the culture at its source, but it's hard not to see it that way, especially through twentieth-century, western eyes. The film does a re... read more
Gritty film shows the plight of thousands of Chinese women: being kidnapped and sold as wives to remote mountain villagers. It's still amazing how many places there are in the world where a person can disappear, and how little effort people would make to find them.
[Director] Li was a documentarian before he switched to feature films with the highly praised 2003 feature Blind Shaft, and it shows in his raw style. Full Review
This is a resolutely tough-minded, beautifully crafted film so compelling as to make bearable watching the nearly unbearable. Full Review
Even trimmed, the film is a stinging and frightening indictment of mainland China. Full Review
Blind Mountain, the second feature from Li Yang, is a reminder that art sometimes keeps the truth alive far better than the news.
Easily fits the paradigm parodied by Funny Games. The difference: This movie actually has a political point. Full Review
The heat of empathetic outrage that Li generates from the audience is enough to make the theater combust. Full Review
Whether one responds or not to the pic's (certainly valid) theme... pic has a deadening lack of dramatic development and a plethora of thinly drawn characters. Full Review
Even though Chinese authorities forced the director to make many cuts before it could be shown in Cannes, the movie retains enormous political impact as well as being a moving drama.
With its complex (and, at times, deeply problematic) intersection of an educated outsider with the stubborn realities of rural life, Blind Mountain explicitly harkens back to those classic works from ... Full Review
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