Behemoth
February Arrivals
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1h 27m
Directed by Zhao Liang | 90 mins | 2015
Shot in the coal mines of Inner Mongolia, Zhao’s nonfiction symphony of industrial rapacity is a mythic-realist work of harrowing close-ups and infernal long shots beggaring belief, evoking Dante and Bosch en route to a haunting climax in an ultramodern pre-fab labyrinth.
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