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  • 2023
  • 2 h 28 m
  • 2023
  • 2 h 28 m

Summary 20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she’s had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic ...

Directed By: Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka

  • 2023
  • 2 h 28 m
  • 2023
  • 2 h 28 m
Stonewalling
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Summary 20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she’s had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic ...

Directed By: Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka

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90
Apr 1, 2023
When the movie goes in for an infrequent closeup — a shot of ultrasound gel being smeared on Lynn’s belly or of Lynn’s face as she puts on a surgical mask in the immediate wake of the COVID-19 outbreak — the intimacy is startling, and instructive.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
90
Mar 9, 2023
Few movies capture the surreal comedy and engulfing horror of the money-driven world as piercingly as “Stonewalling.”
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 10, 2023
Stonewalling is a moving slow burn of a character study, as well as an examination of female stagnancy, personally and politically. There is a striking, human sense of suspense to the film as we worry for Lynn, and root for her to find her power.
By Peyton Robinson FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 9, 2023
Stonewalling is an attentive, engaged character study, an uncommonly candid (for China) women’s picture, and a film of dense and considered sociopolitical implications.
By Sam C. Mac FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 9, 2023
Visually, emotionally, and spiritually, the film is embalmed in an antiseptic sheen. As such, despite its formal rigor and effective, economic approach to storytelling, “Stonewalling” is hard to connect with.
By Steph Green FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 9, 2023
If it lends to creating a hazy portrait for the future of China’s youth, it also makes for a rather meandering and tepid affair. Huang and Otsuka’s form of subtlety and “facts-of-life” approach keep Stonewalling from being the incisive drama they’re clearly considering. Yet the movie gets its point across, much as you might wait for it to get there.
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63
Mar 15, 2023
It’s worth checking out Stonewalling just to see a picture of China that’s not State Approved or attempted by outsiders.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Yellow-Green Pi
Release Date Mar 10, 2023
Duration 2 h 28 m
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Awards

Golden Horse Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Hong Kong International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Bangkok World Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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