Chinese director Lou Ye's Blind Massage swept Taiwan's Golden Horse movie awards, picking up six gongs including best picture at the event often described as the Chinese-language Oscars. Based on the popular novel by Bi Feiyu, Blind Massage (Tui Na in Chinese) is set in Nanjing, a mid-ranking city in China not too far from Shanghai, and it refers to a popular kind of massage given by blind therapists in China. The film won the feature film, cinematography, film editing, adapted screenplay and sound effects categories, while Zhang Lei won best new performer. Lou's censorship history is well known–
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- 11/24/2014
- by Clifford Coonan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Often controversial Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye delivers one of his finest films with Blind Massage, a delicately observed and artfully directed ensemble drama, based on the novel of the same name by Bi Feiyu. Putting aside, at least for the time being, the intensely sexualized scenarios that marked some of his previous films (Summer Palace, Spring Fever, Love and Bruises, Mystery), Lou immerses us in a unique world - that of the blind - that's never been captured on film in quite this way. Sighted professional actors playing blind, including some Lou regulars, mesh seamlessly with actual non-sighted and partially-sighted amateurs to create a broad canvas encompassing several stories that are all engrossing and beautifully rendered.Blind Massage begins with an offscreen narrator (who is heard...
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- 7/2/2014
- Screen Anarchy
★★☆☆☆Blind Massage (Tui na, 2014), adapted from Bi Feiyu's eponymous novel, is Chinese director Lou Ye's second feature following his State-imposed filmmaking ban. Shot with a mixed cast of professional and non-professional blind actors and boasting a highly developed aptitude for visual storytelling, Ye's latest is a sensual poem about those leading their lives in the darkness of society. Thrust into a world where everyone dwells in the shadows, Blind Massage sees Ye depart from the sweeping urban romanticism of his previous work by locating his new offering almost entirely within the confines of a Nanjing masseuse parlour.
- 2/10/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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