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2023
Kimstim Films
2 h 28 m

2023
Kimstim Films
2 h 28 m

Summary 20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she’s had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic ...

Drama

Directed By: Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka

2023
Kimstim Films
2 h 28 m

2023
Kimstim Films
2 h 28 m

Stonewalling

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews

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Summary 20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she’s had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic ...

Drama

Directed By: Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka

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Top Cast

Honggui Yao

Lynn

Xiaoxiong Huang

Lynn's Mother

Long Liu

Zhang

Zilong Xiao

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Los Angeles Times

Apr 1, 2023

When the movie goes in for an infrequent closeup — a shot of ultrasound gel being smeared on Lynn’s belly or of Lynn’s face as she puts on a surgical mask in the immediate wake of the COVID-19 outbreak — the intimacy is startling, and instructive.

By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Mar 9, 2023

Few movies capture the surreal comedy and engulfing horror of the money-driven world as piercingly as “Stonewalling.”

By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

Mar 10, 2023

Stonewalling is a moving slow burn of a character study, as well as an examination of female stagnancy, personally and politically. There is a striking, human sense of suspense to the film as we worry for Lynn, and root for her to find her power.

By Peyton Robinson FULL REVIEW

Mar 9, 2023

Stonewalling is an attentive, engaged character study, an uncommonly candid (for China) women’s picture, and a film of dense and considered sociopolitical implications.

By Sam C. Mac FULL REVIEW

Mar 9, 2023

Visually, emotionally, and spiritually, the film is embalmed in an antiseptic sheen. As such, despite its formal rigor and effective, economic approach to storytelling, “Stonewalling” is hard to connect with.

By Steph Green FULL REVIEW

Mar 9, 2023

If it lends to creating a hazy portrait for the future of China’s youth, it also makes for a rather meandering and tepid affair. Huang and Otsuka’s form of subtlety and “facts-of-life” approach keep Stonewalling from being the incisive drama they’re clearly considering. Yet the movie gets its point across, much as you might wait for it to get there.

Mar 15, 2023

It’s worth checking out Stonewalling just to see a picture of China that’s not State Approved or attempted by outsiders.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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Details

Production Company Yellow-Green Pi

Release Date Mar 10, 2023

Duration 2 h 28 m

Genres

Drama

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Awards

Golden Horse Film Festival

• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations

Hong Kong International Film Festival

• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

Bangkok World Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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