Land and Shade

Reno

7.0

May 16, 2017

**Not far from losing the birthplace of human civilisation.** Not everybody's pick of the year. Everybody does not know this film even exist. This is the director's ambitious project, to depict on the screen the world he had come from. So it is much an awareness film about struggling rural society. Usually critics favour this kind of f...

badelf

8.0

November 20, 2021

This film is much deeper than it appears to be. On the surface, it looks like a struggling poor family in a rural setting. Look again. On one level it is a family with their own set of relational problems. Like Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." But this particular unhappy famil...

badelf

8.0

November 22, 2021

This film is much deeper than it appears to be. On the surface, it looks like a struggling poor family in a rural setting. Look again. On one level it is a family with their own set of relational problems. Like Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This particular unhappy family is...