Mesilla Valley Film Society
at the Historic Fountain Theatre
2469 Calle de Guadalupe
Mesilla
575 524-8287
Nov 14-Nov 20
Up the Yangtze (doc)
Dir: Yung Chang, (Canada), 2007
93 min, English/Mandarin
China's Three Gorges Dam is considered by many experts to be a full-steam-ahead eco-disaster, but helmer Yung Chang's gorgeous meditation is more concerned with the project's collateral human damage: old farmer’s evicted; young people in servitude to Western tourists, all brought about by an endeavor whose collective weight may ultimately tilt the Earth's axis. A gloriously cinematic documentary of epic, poetic sadness, Yangtze is a hit thanks to its embrace of irony rather than righteous indignation. The qualities of the production, like the Three Gorges itself, are oceanic.-John Anderson, Variety.com
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