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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Chun Jiang Shui Nuan

2019

Gu Xiaogang

Qian Youfa, Wang Fengjuan, Zhang Renliang, Zhang Guoying ...

7.2

263

Drama At her 70th birthday celebration, the aged mother of the Gu family suffers from a stroke, which precipitates her decline into dementia. Who will take care of her? The four brothers face crucial changes in their relationships to one another, as they deal with their own family problems. Their destinies, linked by love and challenged by questions and dilemmas, unfold over the course of the four seasons, as it would in an ancient Chinese scroll painting. [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Exquisitely photographed, the film builds a slow-burning portrait of community (...) It’s defiantly undramatic, but (...) this leisurely approach delivers unexpected rewards."	POS
United States	Clarence Tsui The Hollywood Reporter	"A gentle and engaging family drama (...) Xiaogang's directorial debut is as mesmerizing and immersive as the legendary 14th century landscape painting that inspired it."	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"[It] unfolds engagingly enough, but its languorousness can feel more like aimlessness at times (...) While [it] could be tighter and more exacting in its dramaturgy, it still marks an elegant, occasionally inspired debut"	NEU

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