Mammoth 会考试的猛犸象 China, 2020, colour, 2.35:1, 105 mins. Director: Wang Nianyi 王念一. Rating: 6/10. Drama centred on a high-school dreamer and the people in his orbit is strikingly mounted, if a tad pretentious. STORY Chongqing, central China, the present day. Third-year senior high-school student Su Zhengyang (Xu Qijie) lives with his parents in a flat … Continue reading Review: Mammoth (2020) →
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