The Calming

On one of these ambles, Lin passes through a natural arch of curving trees, subsumed in shadow; the camera, intent to follow her for almost every other frame, here captures the landscape until her disappearance from it, and then some seconds after, while wind whips the branches. [...]there is a mela...

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Published in:Cinema scope (Toronto) 2021-01, Vol.23 (85), p.46-47
Main Author: Duckworth, Courtney
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Cameras
Children
Fang, Song
Grief
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
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Summary:On one of these ambles, Lin passes through a natural arch of curving trees, subsumed in shadow; the camera, intent to follow her for almost every other frame, here captures the landscape until her disappearance from it, and then some seconds after, while wind whips the branches. [...]there is a melancholy beauty in the sections where Lin cares for her parents-she is an only child, another pang-above all when her father falls ill, and in quiet concert Lin and her mother brew porridge, hang laundry, and monitor his condition with tender anxiety. [...]it is in the scenes with her parents that Lin enlivens, her posture more playful and visage more intricately expressive, noting everything around them as the three stroll a bamboo forest and pond.
ISSN:1488-7002