Blind Mountain

Name: Blind Mountain
Genre: Drama
Released: March 12, 2008
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 60

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Kino International | Release Date: March 12, 2008

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.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. Unlike other kidnapped brides, she refuses to accept her fate even when she becomes pregnant, but her repeated escape attempts lead only to continuing brutality and betrayal. (Kino International)… Expand

Director: Yang Li

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 95 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

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." Read full review

Kevin Thomas

This is a resolutely tough-minded, beautifully crafted film so compelling as to make bearable watching the nearly unbearable. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

A stinging and frightening indictment of mainland China. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Blind Mountain is a reminder that art sometimes keeps the truth alive far better than the news. Read full review

Ray Bennett

The film's economical style, vivid cinematography and tremendous acting should attract audiences far and wide. Read full review

Noel Murray

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. Read full review

Andrea Gronvall

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. Read full review

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MikeT

Mar 13, 2008

An extremely well-made film, at once tense, invigorating, and deeply depressing.

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GalenF.

Feb 26, 2009

Do not use my name, first or last. Utterly real. Hard to forget.

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