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Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.

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Namrata Joshi The New Indian Express Mongrel leaves one with a sombre, sobering, ambiguous feeling—of rare grace amid utter despair. Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Josh Slater-Williams indieWire Chiang’s tough but affecting film taps into tragically universal notions of feeling invisible or ineffectual in one’s day-to-day survival. These concepts are most certainly not lost in translation. Rated: B May 20, 2024 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian This movie requires patience and attention, a calibration of your viewing expectations to match its stasis. Yet it’s an andante tempo that makes its moments of drama, and even sensation all the more striking. Rated: 4/5 May 20, 2024 Full Review Kevin Fullerton The List Director Chiang Wei Liang has created a stark and austere work of unbroken shots and an unmoving camera, punctuating the rundown setting with viscerally confronting imagery. Within these bleak tableaus is a story of incredible empathy. Rated: 4/5 Sep 2, 2024 Full Review James Hanton FILMHOUNDS Magazine Chiang's debut feature is at once a difficult but rewarding watch that favours subtlety as much as overt anger, and that goes to great lengths to treat its central characters with the respect not afforded to them by the society in which they live. Rated: 4 / 5 Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Jara Yáñez Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Mongrel is a humanist film. [Full review in Spanish] Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Movie Info

Synopsis Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.
Director
Wei Liang Chiang, You Qiao Yin
Producer
Weijie Lai, Lynn Chen, Yun-ting Chu, Weijie Lai
Screenwriter
Wei Liang Chiang
Production Co
Le Petit Jardin, E&W Films, Deuxieme Ligne Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Chinese
Runtime
2h 8m