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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Xiaolu Guo’s ‘She, a Chinese’

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Chinese filmmaker Xiaolu Guo’s “She, a Chinese” is an absorbing character study of a young woman from rural China who makes her way to the big city and then to England in a journey … Continue reading

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CANNES FILM REVIEW: Li Yang’s ‘Blind Mountain’

CANNES – Like Hollywood studios under the Hays Code from 1934 to 1967, London playwrights under the Lord Chamberlain for eons until 1968, filmmakers in China today must please the authorities before their movies are released to the world. The Hollywood … Continue reading

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