Blind Mountain (Previously Owned DVD)

Condition: Disc like new.

BASED ON HORRIFIC TRUE EVENTS

Li Yang, the award-winning Blind Shaft director and (master of cinematic tension - Screen International), raises the stakes in Blind Mountain, a (resolutely tough minded, beautifully crafted film - LA Times) of uncompromising intensity. In rural early 90 s China, Bai (Lu Huang), a pretty and enterprising college student, travels to a remote, mist shrouded mountain village in the company of a pair of affable strangers. But what Bai thought was an expedition to gather herbs for resale turns into a (true crime shocker - NY Times) when her fellow travelers sell her into slavery. This can t be happening!, Bai screams on awakening from a drugged stupor to find herself (married) to a middle-aged pig farmer, and her freedom, identity, and dignity stolen. Yang s (hard-to-shake drama - NY Times) depicts Bai s horrific ordeal with both gravity and the kind of (stunningly realistic - New Yorker) detail that emphasizes the authenticity of the all too common predicament that she fights to escape. Contrasting the exotic beauty of its locale and a (very fine lead turn by Lu Huang - Time Out London) with the cruelty of a system that tolerates human trafficking and a community that thrives on it, Blind Mountain premiered to (a thunderclap of applause and cheers from the audience - Time) at the Cannes Film Festival.