Exactly what one would have wanted from the director of Women from the Lake of Scented Souls, Xie Fei. An honest tearjerker; wise to the cumulative burdens of life; nothing overstated; acres and acres of discretion; an almost pantheistic reverence for the natural world, and in particular a trusty black stallion, galloping vainly in the exhaust trail of his departing master whom he will never see again. Because the adoptive brother and sister at the heart of the tale must go through several stages of youth and early adulthood, the movie has the usual matching difficulties of too many actors in too few roles, but somehow this matters less when the actors are unfamiliar. (And no, it doesn't matter less when the actors are Asian.) (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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