Fresh
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.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[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.
Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
This is a resolutely tough-minded, beautifully crafted film so compelling as to make bearable watching the nearly unbearable.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
For all its regional specificity and grit, the majority of Blind Mountain's turns could have come from any Hollywood-issue flick.
David Fear, Time Out New York
Fresh
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.'
Noel Murray, AV Club
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