Living the Land

Name: Living the Land
Genre: Drama
Released: April 3, 2026
Duration: 132 min
Rating: 75

2026

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Film Movement | Release Date: April 3, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: It is 1991, and China’s socio-economic transformation is profoundly affecting the lives of individual families across the vast nation. Peasant farmers face challenges and technological advances that are radically reshaping their rural way of life. In response, ten-year-old Chuang’s parents have opted to move away to seek work in the city,It is 1991, and China’s socio-economic transformation is profoundly affecting the lives of individual families across the vast nation. Peasant farmers face challenges and technological advances that are radically reshaping their rural way of life. In response, ten-year-old Chuang’s parents have opted to move away to seek work in the city, leaving their third child behind to be raised by extended family and neighbours in their countryside village community.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 132 min

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RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Apr 3, 2026

The tensions in “Living the Land” are experienced in a bittersweet key. We are looking at Atlantis. The film is deeply mournful, but also pierced with joy. Read full review

IndieWire Ritesh Mehta

Apr 6, 2026

Huo’s project is to portray these social relations and material disparities with crispness, therefore the image is sharp, and though expansive, also concise. Read full review

Jake Cole

Feb 19, 2025

Huo Meng’s patient, nonjudgmental study of these people tacitly reveals the ways, healthy and otherwise, in which they’ve compartmentalized and continue to process the pain of everything from hard labor to political oppression. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Apr 2, 2026

The film tracks about a year in Chuang’s life in a sober, sociological style of long takes and smooth pans. The story feels loose, intentionally directionless, at first, but as it winds toward the cooler months, its collection of small details builds up to big-picture revelations about the imminent rise of China as a global superpower. Read full review

IONCINEMA.com Nicholas Bell

Apr 2, 2026

In many ways, Living the Land plays like the fictionalized version of moments in Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, particularly in communal moments of intersecting realities. It’s a familiar human story, yet one which carves out its own fierceness as seasons change, life goes on, and new generations must contend with being unable to inherit the fruits of their parents’ toils. Read full review

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