Mistress of Misery: Yang Explores the Turmoil of Transformation
Here comes the rain again, falling on her head like a tragedy. Or so is the somewhat gloomy sentiment of Qiu Yang’s debut Some Rain Must Fall, which finds Cai, 45-year-old housewife being raked over the coals when a perfect storm of past and present events coincide over a hellish few days. While a dramatic, unintentionally violent moment triggers a cascade of deepening miseries, the actual dramatic catalyst has been long coming, longer actually than the current discord with her husband. Each of them having a somewhat fractured relationship with their teenage daughter, and contending with both their elderly parents, the film is a condensed laundry list of intergenerational domestic strife, but led quite exceptionally by Yu Aier, whose troubled countenance gives way to cathartic fury and eventual reclamation of her dogged durability.…...
Here comes the rain again, falling on her head like a tragedy. Or so is the somewhat gloomy sentiment of Qiu Yang’s debut Some Rain Must Fall, which finds Cai, 45-year-old housewife being raked over the coals when a perfect storm of past and present events coincide over a hellish few days. While a dramatic, unintentionally violent moment triggers a cascade of deepening miseries, the actual dramatic catalyst has been long coming, longer actually than the current discord with her husband. Each of them having a somewhat fractured relationship with their teenage daughter, and contending with both their elderly parents, the film is a condensed laundry list of intergenerational domestic strife, but led quite exceptionally by Yu Aier, whose troubled countenance gives way to cathartic fury and eventual reclamation of her dogged durability.…...
- 2/19/2024
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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