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Up the Yangtze (2007)
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33842
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Yung Chang
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Special Interest
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Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
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ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
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English, Mandarin |
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93 mins |
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2008-11-18 |
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$ 4.00 |
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China's Yangtze River - and all of the life that surrounds it - is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather's youth to race the surreal life of a "farewell cruise" that traverses the gargantuan waterway. With touching humanism and wry wit, Chang follows the microcosmic society of the luxury liner and the bitter irony of a young girl sent to work as a dishwasher aboard the ship - trying to provide for her peasant family as the river's floodwaters drive them from their home. Up The Yangtze gives a human dimension to the wrenching changes facing not only an increasingly globalized China, but the world at large. |
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