This film lost me, as all films will do(Andrei Rublev, Lacombe Lucien, etc ,etc), when they killed a living animal for the sake of a movie. That should not be tolerated by any rational, compassionate movie goer or maker. There is just no call for it, yet it happens so often...even still today! Killing for art? That is ridiculous. No true artist would intentionally harm anything for the sake of their art!
a powerful simplistic little story that crafted so delicately delightful by tian, this feels a bit like tarkovsky meets herzog, but still, i don't think this movie reach it full potential, and the pace is a little too slow even for my taste..