Dragonfly Eyes

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Dragonfly Eyes

2017

1h 21m

Mystery & Thriller

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9 Reviews

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A plain-faced woman leaves her training at a Buddhist temple to work on a dairy farm.

Boyd van Hoeij

The Hollywood Reporter

Aug 15, 2017

A failed experiment.

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Jay Weissberg

Variety

Aug 13, 2017

"Dragonfly Eyes" disappoints with its unsatisfying combination of an ultra-banal narrative told in a formally original way.

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Fionnuala Halligan

Screen International

Aug 10, 2017

Dragonfly Eyes is quietly disturbing, filled with unease and malaise but also rich in poetry: it's a provocative film for our times which marries conceptual art with cinema in a fresh and unusual way.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Sep 16, 2021

5/10

On a conceptual level alone this is an inventive and fascinating piece of work. As an actual narrative work, it's terribly dull.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Oct 20, 2019

As I conclude the review, I have to admit I still do not know what to make of "Dragonfly Eyes," but I think that is where its value lies, as a film that will make its audience think, while it also provides a truly original spectacle.

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Lauren Carroll Harris

The Baffler

Jun 3, 2019

Despite the narrative abstraction and exposed artifice of the film's construction, Xu's creation feels creepily alive-because it is.

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Xu Bing

Director

Yongming Zhai

Screenwriter

Hanyi Zhang

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Matthieu Laclau

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Synopsis

A plain-faced woman leaves her training at a Buddhist temple to work on a dairy farm.

Director: Xu Bing
Screenwriter: Yongming Zhai, Hanyi Zhang
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Chinese
Runtime: 1h 21m

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