Oxhide
27
Drama
Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide is the smallest of things. The story takes place entirely in her family’s dingy little apartment, and its characters are none other than her parents and the director herself. There are only 23 shots comprising the narrative of the film, one for each year of the director’s life at the time of its making. But in its depiction of a working-class family trying desperately to make ends meet, its very smallness says so ... [+]