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Blind Mountain
Directed by
Li Yang
Not Rated
2007
1h 35m
Drama
,
Crime
7.5
87%
83%
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Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers apathy and selfishness.
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Where to Watch Blind Mountain
Kanopy
Free
Cast of Blind Mountain
Huang Lu
Bai Xuemei
Yang Youan
Huang Degui
Zhang Yuling
Ding Xiuying
He Yunle
Huang Decheng
Jia Yingao
Huang Changyi
Li Yang
Director / Writer
Lu Wei
Producer
Blind Mountain Ratings & Reviews
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Leo Goldsmith
With its complex (and, at times, deeply problematic) intersection of an educated outsider with the stubborn realities of rural life, Blind Mountain explicitly harkens back to those classic works from the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, like Yellow
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Effective at showing how hard it is for even a spirited and educated woman to escape a community complicit in a brutal arranged marriage, but few characters have complexity.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Blind Mountain, the second film from fledgling Chinese filmmaker Li Yang, demonstrates many of the same qualities that made his first, Blind Shaft, one of the most promising directorial debuts of recent years.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
Li's spare script works well with his choice to employ non-actors.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
It's a harsh portrait of a brutal segment of society, only relieved by an occasional handsome landscape shot (filmed in the Shaanxi province) that makes Bai's plight all the more compelling.
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
[Director] Li was a documentarian before he switched to feature films with the highly praised 2003 feature Blind Shaft, and it shows in his raw style.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
This is a resolutely tough-minded, beautifully crafted film so compelling as to make bearable watching the nearly unbearable.
Boxoffice Magazine
Ed Scheid
Blind Mountain becomes a tense struggle of would-be escape.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
Colored fully within the lines and with scant few moments of fascination
AV Club
Noel Murray
For the second film in a row, [director] Li excoriates the values of an increasingly market-driven China, where people treat their fellows as products to be exploited, and scramble to get an edge on their 'competitors.'
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Li's bold, angry film depicts a merciless society completely defined by commerce.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Even trimmed, the film is a stinging and frightening indictment of mainland China.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Blind Mountain, the second feature from Li Yang, is a reminder that art sometimes keeps the truth alive far better than the news.
Slant Magazine
Kevin B. Lee
With Blind Mountain, 6th Generation Chinese maverick Li Yang continues his scorched-earth treatment of 5th Generation heroic peasant stereotypes launched by his debut feature Blind Shaft.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Easily fits the paradigm parodied by Funny Games. The difference: This movie actually has a political point.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
The heat of empathetic outrage that Li generates from the audience is enough to make the theater combust.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
Li's documentary approach brooks no sentimentality in its portrayal of the loss of innocence.
Variety
Derek Elley
Whether one responds or not to the pic's (certainly valid) theme... pic has a deadening lack of dramatic development and a plethora of thinly drawn characters.
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
Even though Chinese authorities forced the director to make many cuts before it could be shown in Cannes, the movie retains enormous political impact as well as being a moving drama.
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