Blind Mountain

AroView: A superbly executed kidnapping drama that’s also surprisingly achieved given its critical portrait of Chinese society, this concerns the heinous rural practice of abducting young women and forcing them to be the wives of men in remote provinces.

Centred on a career-aspiring woman conned into visiting a mountain village, then drugged and sold to an unseemly farmer, the film successfully balances sobering dramatic insights into the plight of the kidnapped and the naivety of her surroundings, with an almost unbearable, simmering tension built around her resilience and will to escape.

“This is a resolutely tough-minded, beautifully crafted film so compelling as to make bearable watching the nearly unbearable.” ~Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

“A stinging and frightening indictment of mainland China.” ~New York Post