Film Review: Up the Yangtze
December 30th, 2008 by Mr Fossy
I don’t watch many documentaries, but this came highly recommended, so I snatched up a copy as soon as it became available. It wasn’t so long ago that I watched Jia Zhang-ke’s film about the Three Gorges dam, ‘三峡好人’, so I couldn’t help but draw comparisons (in spite of the fact that Jia’s is a narrative feature). Each film presents an unique take on the way the massive project has dislocated so many people, but ‘Up the Yangtze’ is enveloped in a kind of personal journey of Canadian director, Yung Chang. This turns out to be both a strength and a weakness (but still more a strength).