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‘Living The Land’ Review: Huo Meng’s Rural Early-’90s Drama Shows A Family On The Cusp Of Change – Berlin Film Festival
‘Living The Land’ review: Huo Meng’s rural ’90s drama shows a family on the cusp of change – Berlin Film Festival
He ends up serving as witness to the travails of both women, each of whom faces a world all too ready to put them in their place — in contrast to Huo’s previous feature, Crossing the Border: Zhaoguan, which centered on male experience. The turmoil is not on the scale of the Three Gorges Dam Project memorably dramatized by Jia Zhangke (an early Huo Meng supporter) in Still Life(2006), but the farmers might soon become factory workers if national industry demands something different from their land. Some material has the feel of family lore and anecdotes, like the hidden romance that is implied when Chuang delivers his aunt’s letter at night to a teacher who’s leaving town, or the clearly little-loved school practice of asking students to bring a load of wheat to class after harvest season.
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