For a better experience on MUBI, update your browser.

The Black and White Milk Cow

Yi zhi hua nai niu

Directed by Jin Yang

China, 2004

Drama

93

Synopsis

A young schoolteacher unknowingly enters a tangled web of politics in Yang Jin’s unsentimental dissection of the Chinese countryside.

This film is not currently playing on MUBI but 30 other great films are. See what’s now showing

The Black and White Milk Cow Directed by Jin Yang

Awards & Festivals

Fribourg International Film Festival

2005 | 2 wins including: Don Quixote Award

Cast & Crew

What are people saying?

wu.meaningless's rating of the film The Black and White Milk Cow
wu.meaningless

Yang Jin recruited his entire family to help create Black and White Milk Cow, an epic tragedy, shot in his home village. A brilliant mastery of video story telling. Beautiful, humble, inspiring, honest, and very natural. What Yang Jin accomplished with a $1400 budget ($400 to rent the cow!) makes me want to put the entire film industry on blast. POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
January 16, 2017 06:35
- 0
- 0

In these lists

Related films

The Lives of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
Queer China, 'Comrade' China

Cui Zi'en, 2008
City of Life and Death

Lu Chuan, 2009
Curse of the Golden Flower

Zhang Yimou, 2006
House of Flying Daggers

Zhang Yimou, 2004
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Ang Lee, 2000
Platform

Jia Zhangke, 2000
Talk to Her

Pedro Almodóvar, 2002
Together

Lukas Moodysson, 2000
Amélie

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001
Amores perros

Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000
Er Dong

Jin Yang, 2008