‘Guo Ran’ Review: An Exquisite Chinese Close-Up of a Woman Increasingly Alone in Her Pregnancy
An expectant mother finds her relationship almost imperceptibly coming apart — right at the moment she most needs some care and kinship — in “Guo Ran,” a silently wrenching second feature from Chinese writer-director Li Dongmei that deftly identifies generational malaise in individual crisis. The kind of brief, intimately scaled chamber drama that often gets […]