I will be eating dumplings tonight. This movie is...exceptional . It's a very different film in every way from the first one. My first reaction would be to say it's better but I love both and look forward to revisiting them many times like old friends.
I ate a full meal before I went to the screening and I still felt hungry by the end of the movie. They even served dumplings before the screening. Ni hao ma, 3D bitches?
Better than Citizen Kane, and it's about making dumpling in real time.
Not only is it one of the greatest films ever made, but a perfect example of the sequel being superior to the original
great! a change in rythm in a series of gestures so much more eloquent than a facial expression! I love this film.
As rigorous as Akerman, as subtle and moving as Ozu, as sardonic as Tsai, as revolutionary as Zhangke and Costa, as simple as Alonso, and as grand as Yang. This film is everything.
"Oxhide II is unpretentiously inventive, quietly virtuosic. Evidently it took a Chinese filmmaker to blend domestic life with the rigor of Structural Film. Liu displays the fine-grained resources yielded by several cinema techniques, from framing and staging to lighting and sound. Every festival that’s serious about the art of cinema should pledge to show Oxhide II" (David Bordwell).