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Movie Overview
Cast
Cindy Yu Shui
Jerry Chen Bo Yu
Director
Yung Chang
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Up The Yangtze (2007)
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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4/5
"Chang's sensitive observational style allows the contrast between the unreality of the ship and the crushing hardship of the lives of Yu Shui's family to develop naturally"
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
A-
"A searing lament for China and the eradication of its historic farming culture,
Yangtze
is a stunning documentary that details every gut-churning step of inevitability."
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
4/5
"almost unbearably intimate"
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
B
"floats across the screen, leaving indelible metaphoric imagery of China's rapidly changing way of life"
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
"[Induces] culture shock at discovering [an] unseen world..."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
3/4
"Chang gracefully juxtaposes the country and the metropolitan to express the knotted-up mixture of anguish, anger, hope, and trepidation of those in the dammed river's wake."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
8/10
"A cruise on the Yangtze, site of the Three Gorges Dam (the largest hydroelectric project in the world) is a fitting metaphor for the promise and cost of China's rapid modernization."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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