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Behemoth

Bei xi mo shou (Behemoth)

2015

Zhao Liang

Documentary

7.0

152

Documentary Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"An impressively self-shot poetic exercise in controlled righteous outrage, emphasizing the contrasts between rapidly dwindling green pastures and dead landscapes disemboweled by toxic mining."	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"'Behemoth' achieves much of its authority not from its borderline-pretentious voiceovers but from the way the images comment wordlessly on a world in which humans are reduced to the status of servants"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Alternating between grimly beautiful passages and others that, frankly, are dull and dutiful, this is a rigorous exercise with something of a trance quality"	NEU
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"Eye-popping images dominate this film (...) 'Behemoth' takes as its ostensible subject the pollution of the planet—but it also explores the pollution of the soul (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Zhao Liang takes on the industrialization of Inner Mongolia lyrically, crafting a nearly wordless visual poem of imploded landscapes and sick, tired workers."	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"A Chinese documentary whose stunning images speak louder than words (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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