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Jul 21, 2023 · Set in Gansu, a rural section of China, “Return to Dust” tells a story almost as simple as its title. Ma Youtie, a small farmer with little to his name but a donkey, is placed in a sort of arranged marriage with Cao Guiyung.
Jul 20, 2023 · With superb performances by Wu Renlin and Hai Qing, “Dust” tells the story of Youtie and Guiying, middle-aged strangers pushed into an arranged marriage by families looking mostly to offload them.
Feb 14, 2022 · A later-life love story of the gentlest kind, Li Ruijun‘s “Return to Dust” is an absorbing, beautifully framed drama that makes a virtue — possibly too much a virtue — of simplicity. The ...
Return to Dust is many things — a vivid portrait of China’s hardscrabble rural north-west, an unexpected victim of state censorship — but it is first and last a love story.
In rural Gaotai county, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma (Wu Renlin) is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife ...
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- Wu Renlin
- Ruijun Li
- Beijing J.Q. Spring Pictures
Jul 20, 2023 · Return to Dust. Review: A Fine-Grained, Unsentimental Paean to a Couple’s Fortitude. Return to Dust ’s characters don’t so much develop as they deepen. In the realm of Chinese independent cinema, the weight of influence can be felt as heavily as the often capricious and inscrutable government censorship system.
Nov 10, 2022 · Return to Dust: human fortitude is the spectacle. With its long takes and its broad sociological canvas, Li Ruijun’s sixth feature, about a married couple navigating the manifold difficulties of rural life in China, is an ambitious, perceptive piece of filmmaking. 10 November 2022.
