Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302917055 Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6302917050 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: October 16, 1997 Running Time: 89 minutes Sales Rank: 12092 Studio: Fox Lorber Theatrical Release Date: 1988
Description: A haunting, evocative film set in the barren wilderness of Northern Shaanxi province in 1939. The life of a fourteen year-old peasant girl is changed forever by the arrival of a communist soldier.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Please see this movie so you can understand current PRC.
For those who hope for the happiness of mainland chinese people, this movie is informative and heart warming.
Rating: - The life is not a question of ideologies!
1939. A communist soldier is sent to a very remote province to collect to collect songs ( A visible homage to Bela Bartok, who gathered more than three hundred songs of the Hungarian Folk) , but additionally he will learn much more about the real life.
The admirable simplicity of this plot should not be an obstacle to appreciate the body and facial languages at a evry superior level.
This was the first Op. of this sensitive director of "fareweel my concubine" , Chen Kaige.
Rating: - of Hammer...
In 1937 Chiang Kai-shek's KMT and Chairman Mao's Communist Party created an uneasy alliance because of the looming collective threat of the Japanese. Steeped in archaic traditions and KMT rule many areas of China especially in poorer, northern areas such as the upper half of Shanxi province still existed in a pre-modern time without having being enlightened by the changing times occurring in the south. Although pitied by the Communists, there was also a begrudging respect for some of the customs held by the peasants. In Yellow Earth the custom brought to the fore is folk singing.
Rating: - Yellow Earth
It is impossible to understand this film without a perspective of Chinese cinematic history. This movie is a strong revolutionary critique. It starts of as a typical revolutionary film, like those that were made during Mao's lifetime...and then it all falls apart. I'm sure many casual viewers have trouble with what seems to be a lack of plot. This film speaks about emptiness, emptiness of the land and people, and the empty promise of the communist party. It is a cyclic film, which in itself is a critique of the Party, as revolutionary films were linear, denoting progress towards a glorious ... Read More
Rating: - Misreadings...
The reviewers who claim that this film sends propagandistic messages are way off the mark (perhaps they are the ideologues?). If anything, this film is a critique of the Chinese communist party. A kind communist party member offers to liberate the poor and needy (and most of them did in fact support the communist party) but in the end, way see that he/the party are not able to accomplish what they promised. The young girl, it appears, drowns.
Beautiful cinematography (thanks to Zhang Yimou). Learn to appreciate the colors of the yellow earth (and not the usual green snapshots ... Read More
- 
- 