{"id":13070,"date":"2019-07-25T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:02:59","slug":"up-the-mountain-2019-zhang-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13070","title":{"rendered":"Up The Mountain (2019, Zhang Yang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s True\/False was pried in between two moves and the China trip, so I made a point to schedule two of the Chinese movies playing.  This one&#8217;s about painting and a scenic retreat, figured it&#8217;d at least be some nice scenery a la last year&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12556\">Next Guardian<\/a><\/em>.  Turned out to be an excellent movie by an unknown master of the &#8220;sixth generation&#8221; who often casts people as themselves.<\/p>\n<p>A squarish aspect ratio helps him create compositions that look like the paintings which he explicitly mirrors.  The movie plays like a slice-of-life village portrait that happens to mostly be set at a painters retreat, with a birth, a death, a wedding.  You wouldn&#8217;t necessarily know about the documentary aspects &#8211; and I still don&#8217;t, since we skipped the Q&#038;A to get snacks &#8211; except that we see the women sketching and painting, and most of the character names match the actor names in the credits.<\/p>\n<p>River Arkansas opened with a pleasant sort of country thing, and I noted not to get the french toast next time we&#8217;re at Cafe Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s True\/False was pried in between two moves and the China trip, so I made a point to schedule two of the Chinese movies playing. This one&#8217;s about painting and a scenic retreat, figured it&#8217;d at least be some nice scenery a la last year&#8217;s Next Guardian. Turned out to be an excellent movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,200,302,2245,2548],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-china","tag-painting","tag-true-false","tag-zhang-yang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13088,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions\/13088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}