Taming the Horse
Taming the Horse (2017)
Director: Tao Gu
Year: 2017
Running time: 129 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Language: Chinese Mandarin
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2017 Festival des 3 continents, France - Montgolfière d'or
2017 Montréal International Documentary Film Festival (RIDM), Canada - Grand Prize For Best Canadian Feature
2018 China Independent Film Festival (CIFF), China - Jury Prize
2018 FIRST International Film Festival, China - Best artistic originality
2017 Visions du Réel, Switzerland
2017 Dok Leipzig, Germany
2018 True/False Film Fest, USA
2018 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Canada
Dong is a dreamer who has lost his way. Born on the plains of Inner Mongolia, and transplanted to the economic frenzy of southern China, he is forced to confront the realities of age, family and a changing society. Over the course of a year, filmmaker Tao Gu accompanies Dong in his labyrinthine quest. The resulting portrait is of a difficult and divisive young man; a sympathetic record on the human condition in contemporary China; a raw cry for truth, a longing for a better life.
““A view on dream and crossing””
““Comparable with Mother and Whore and Memories of Murder” ”
““Aonther way to portrait contemporary China, hollow, as intimate as collective””
““Tao Gu leads us an impressive cinematographic journey through time and space, that in no small part is rooted in its organic and sophisticated editing” ”
