By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Haocun Liu | Wei Fan | Xiaochuan Li | Yan Li | Yi Zhang
Original language title: Yi miao zhong
Country: china, hong_kong
Year: 2022
Running time: 104
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8959680/reference/
Chris says: “SHADOW was Zhang Yimou’s best film in years; this follow-up is not as innovative, but it does feel faintly reminiscent of his smaller-scale 1990s dramas (his most fertile period), if perhaps a little goofier. Set in a remote area of 1970s Cultural Revolution China (near the desert/mountains – first shot left me wondering if I was watching DUNE by mistake), it’s a fable about a Zhang (Zhang Yi), a man hoping to see a newsreel containing footage of his 14-year-old daughter at a communal movie night in a small village. The only problem is, Liu, a homeless teenage girl keeps trying to steal the film reel.