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Our review of Return of the Swallows: The lovebirds hide to unite

2023-02-07T14:31:58.719Z


REVIEW - Chinese director Li Ruijun landed his camera in a rural part of his country to tell a story of an arranged marriage. A modest film that possesses the delicacy of a work of art.


Progress is raging.

It will happen to them.

Ma Youtie and Cao are forcibly married.

The ceremony takes place in front of a red wall.

They keep their eyes downcast.

All is said.

Contemporary China worries them.

They prefer to stay in the countryside.

These two foreigners work in the fields, raising chicks in a cardboard box with holes in it.

In the yard, a donkey placidly watches the snowflakes falling in handfuls.

This rural universe lives according to the calendar of the seasons.

They punctuate this courageous and orderly existence.

The couple bury themselves in one of those places without civilization.

There's a lot of tiny things going on there.

You have to weed a corn plant, transport bales of hay on a cart, catch a fish in the stream.

This provides so many small arrays.

They didn't know each other.

They tame each other, share memories, confide secrets.

They laugh and they cry at the same time, discover commonalities.

His family…

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Source: lefigaro

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