Blind Mountain

Writer-director Li Yang's relentlessly jolting "Blind Mountain" is his response to the consequences of worshiping money in a society in which rapid economic development threatens to destroy traditional values and ethics. Shockingly revelatory rather than didactic, this boldly confident film calls attention to how hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted and sold off every year in China. [...] Vai alla recensione »

Every so often in his slow-to-boil, hard-to-shake drama “Blind Mountain,” the Chinese director Li Yang slips in a moment of beauty — a blooming valley wreathed in mist, a shepherd tending his flock — of the sort you find in glossy travel magazines. These pastoral visions initially feel like a reprieve, a respite from the story’s increasing heaviness, but there’s something about these bucolic images [...] Vai alla recensione »