‘Living The Land’ Review: Huo Meng’s Rural Early-’90s Drama Shows A Family On The Cusp Of Change – Berlin Film Festival
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deadline.comA farming family in rural China gets a rich, warm portrait in Huo Meng’s picturesque second feature Living the Land, set in the early 1990s in a country on the cusp of vast change.
Rather than a static tribute to the countryside, Huo’s lovely roving eye for composition and gentle hand with drama trace the challenges and enduring bonds among several hard-working generations of farmers.
The parents of sweet 10-year-old Chuang (Wang Shang) left him at birth with their clan (the Li’s) in order to seek jobs south in Shenzhen.
The village will undergo shifts of its own, but an early sequence of burial and mourning rituals around their grandparents underlines the traditions that still hold sway, with public laments and white mourning hats.
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