To Live, Zhang Yimou's sixth feature, explores territory that is rapidly becoming familiar to those who view the works of China's so-called "Fifth Generation" film makers. The events of the middle decades of the twentieth century,...
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To Live, Zhang Yimou's sixth feature, explores territory that is rapidly becoming familiar to those who view the works of China's so-called "Fifth Generation" film makers. The events of the middle decades of the twentieth century, including the Communist Civil War, the "Great Leap Forward", and the Cultural Revolution, represent fertile ground for grand stories of mingled tragedy and triumph. However, this marvelously-textured movie, which is by turns funny and touching,, takes a different approach from pictures like The Blue Kite and Farewell My Concubine. Instead of viewing the cultural changes on an epic scale, To Live gives a far more intimate, and affecting, perspective.
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From the list : movies to see by kalpak
this should be fun !
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