In Search of Lost Time 海的尽头是草原 China, 2022, colour, 2.35:1, 123 mins. Director: Er Dongsheng 尔冬升 [Derek Yee]. Rating: 4/10. Light drama based on the 1960 relocation of 3,000 Han orphans to Inner Mongolia lacks dramatic traction. STORY China. (In the late 1950s the country was ravaged by natural disasters, and victims in the Yangtze … Continue reading Review: In Search of Lost Time (2022) →
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