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  • 2008
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2008
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 35 m
Blind Mountain

Summary Bax Xuemei is a young college graduate who yearns for a life as a budding urban capitalist but ends up drugged and sold as the bride of a rural brute. Beaten and raped by her new husband with the help of his parents, she tries desperately to escape but is trapped both by the closed culture and by the very remote location of the village. ...

Directed By: Yang Li

Written By: Yang Li

  • 2008
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2008
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 35 m

Blind Mountain

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Bax Xuemei is a young college graduate who yearns for a life as a budding urban capitalist but ends up drugged and sold as the bride of a rural brute. Beaten and raped by her new husband with the help of his parents, she tries desperately to escape but is trapped both by the closed culture and by the very remote location of the village. ...

Directed By: Yang Li

Written By: Yang Li

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
60
73% Positive
8 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
9% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
60
73% Positive
8 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review

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Twenty years ago, Li's film might have served as a warning; today, it rues a dehumanizing economic system run rampant that leaves one sad slave wife to muse, "It's easy to die. It's living that's hard."
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
A potent drama from Yang Li, one of China's Sixth Generation filmmakers noted for the stark realism and documentary feeling of their work.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
75
Li’s story is lean and economical, but deeply harrowing, as Xuemei--sympathetically played by debuting performer Huang Lu, the only classically trained actor in a cast of non-professionals--clings to her courage and tries again and again to escape.
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70
Blind Mountain is a reminder that art sometimes keeps the truth alive far better than the news.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
67
Blind Mountain would be better-served by more touches of universality, as in the scene where a neighbor woman comforts Huang by saying, "All women go through this." That scene flirts with metaphor. The rest of the film too often descends into harangue.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Low on drama and originality, and high on deja vu, sophomore outing by writer-director Li Yang ("Blind Shaft," 2003).
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
30
The movie not only indicts the country's embrace of capitalism by showing how low people will sink to make money, it also denigrates the agrarian class--once celebrated as heroic under Mao--by portraying its members as illiterate barbarians concerned only with continuing their family lines.
By Andrea Gronvall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Kun Peng Xing Yun Cultural Development, Tag Spledour and Films
Release Date Mar 12, 2008
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Awards

Bratislava International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Istanbul Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hawaii International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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