Based on his autobiographical novel, Sijie Dai’s Xiao cai feng is muted and, I’m afraid, as lulling as a perpetual waterfall. It is about two college students, one of them bold, the other reserved, who have been sent to a peasant community in the mountains for their “re-education” and “rehabilitation” in 1971 Maoist China. They […]
Daily Archives: January 4, 2010
In order of preference beginning with my most favorite, listed below are my ten favorite film performances 2000-2009. 1. The greatest performance of the past decade: Jeanne Moreau, Plus tard (Amos Gitaï, 2008). In one of his most delicate, sensitive, dearly ironical works, One Day You’ll Understand, based on Jérôme Clément’s 2005 autobiographical novel, Israeli […]
Dennis Grunes 