In this gripping, precisely modulated drama, directors Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka take a compassionate but tough-minded look at the life of a 20-year-old Chinese woman (an outstanding Yao Honggui), striving to find her place in a nation driven by the cruel logic of economic necessity. If that sounds dull or deterministic, it isn’t; in every bustling frame, the filmmakers show us a world in fascinating, never-ending flux, where, for young people especially, the conditions of work and the means of survival are forever being renegotiated. (“Stonewalling” is still playing in select U.S. theaters.)
And a few more standouts: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” “Emily,” “Godland,” “Joyland,” “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” “Reality,” “Rimini,” “Skinamarink,” “A Thousand and One” and “Tori and Lokita.”
In this gripping, precisely modulated drama, directors Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka take a compassionate but tough-minded look at the life of a 20-year-old Chinese woman (an outstanding Yao Honggui), striving to find her place in a nation driven by the cruel logic of economic necessity. If that sounds dull or deterministic, it isn’t; in every bustling frame, the filmmakers show us a world in fascinating, never-ending flux, where, for young people especially, the conditions of work and the means of survival are forever being renegotiated. (“Stonewalling” is still playing in select U.S. theaters.)
And a few more standouts: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” “Emily,” “Godland,” “Joyland,” “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” “Reality,” “Rimini,” “Skinamarink,” “A Thousand and One” and “Tori and Lokita.”
In this gripping, precisely modulated drama, directors Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka take a compassionate but tough-minded look at the life of a 20-year-old Chinese woman (an outstanding Yao Honggui), striving to find her place in a nation driven by the cruel logic of economic necessity. If that sounds dull or deterministic, it isn’t; in every bustling frame, the filmmakers show us a world in fascinating, never-ending flux, where, for young people especially, the conditions of work and the means of survival are forever being renegotiated. (“Stonewalling” is still playing in select U.S. theaters.)
And a few more standouts: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” “Emily,” “Godland,” “Joyland,” “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” “Reality,” “Rimini,” “Skinamarink,” “A Thousand and One” and “Tori and Lokita.”
In this gripping, precisely modulated drama, directors Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka take a compassionate but tough-minded look at the life of a 20-year-old Chinese woman (an outstanding Yao Honggui), striving to find her place in a nation driven by the cruel logic of economic necessity. If that sounds dull or deterministic, it isn’t; in every bustling frame, the filmmakers show us a world in fascinating, never-ending flux, where, for young people especially, the conditions of work and the means of survival are forever being renegotiated. (“Stonewalling” is still playing in select U.S. theaters.)
And a few more standouts: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” “Emily,” “Godland,” “Joyland,” “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” “Reality,” “Rimini,” “Skinamarink,” “A Thousand and One” and “Tori and Lokita.”
