Stonewalling

Name: Stonewalling
Genre: Drama
Released: March 10, 2023
Duration: 148 min
Rating: 84
Cast: Honggui Yao, Xiaoxiong Huang, Zilong Xiao

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Kimstim Films | Release Date: March 10, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Honggui Yao, Xiaoxiong Huang, Zilong Xiao

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 to20 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 to try and figure out (if she can) what’s next.… Expand

Director: Ji Huang and Ryûji Otsuka

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 148 min

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Justin Chang

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. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Mar 9, 2023

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

RogerEbert.com Peyton Robinson

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. Read full review

IndieWire Steph Green

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. Read full review

Sam C. Mac

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. Read full review

The Film Stage Soham Gadre

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. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

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. Read full review

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