While Blind Mountain, opening today at Film Forum, where it runs through March 25, has some reviewers reaching far and wide for comparisons, the New York Times' Manohla Dargis sticks to Li Yang's first feature: "Tough and stripped to the narrative bone, Blind Shaft has a tighter, faster feel than this new film, in large part because it's about men who make (bad) things happen in the world, while Blind Mountain hinges on a woman whose imprisonment - conveyed through claustrophobic rooms and taunting landscapes framed by windows and doors - paradoxically helps hobble the storytelling.... Yet while there's something terribly frustrating about her stop-and-go motion, this sense of irritation, of feeling bound by and to the story, is the point."
Continued reading Blind Mountain....
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