Stonewalling

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Stonewalling

2023

2h 28m

Drama

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20-year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she's had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic to try and figure out (if she can) what's next.

Alison Willmore

New York Magazine/Vulture

Ji Huang and Ryûji Otsuka’s bleakly funny film has you aching for its 20-year-old protagonist Lynn (Honggui Yao) as much as you also feel exasperated with her naïveté.

Dec 9, 2023

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Justin Chang

Los Angeles Times

[A] toughly observed, brutally honest movie...

Apr 1, 2023

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Peyton Robinson

RogerEbert.com

“Stonewalling” is a moving, slow burn of a character study, as well as an examination of female stagnancy, personally and politically.

Rated: 3.5/4

Mar 10, 2023

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Ryan Swen

Taipei Mansions

What makes Huang and Otsuka’s approach much greater than a simple exposé of the dire state of modern China and/or capitalism in general is the middle ground they find.

Sep 5, 2025

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Stonewalling achieves the kind of heartbreaking summation of the world that comes along with any well-rounded understanding of its facts and realities.

Jun 5, 2024

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James Marsh

South China Morning Post

It is not always an easy watch, and the gradual slide towards tragedy is as inevitable as it is painful to endure, but there can be no denying that Lynn’s story is all too common and one in desperate need of being acknowledged and addressed head-on.

Rated: 3/5

May 9, 2024

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《石门》这部影片涉及到了移民，代孕，疫情，口罩，同时尖锐的讽刺了中国保健品市场荒谬的现状。这是一部令人窒息的电影，它的画面写实到了一种残忍的地步，也许是这一部关于这个时代部分女性的‘纪录片' 导演把人物困在了一个又一个空间当中，这些空间或许空旷，带有窗户，但总是每每伴随着窒息感，人们不得不假装愉悦的享受其中。我大概会想去拍摄类似这样的一部电影，它像卧底记者一般，直击现实，毫无避讳。（本片豆瓣已经删除词条）

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/19/23

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Synopsis

20-year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she's had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic to try and figure out (if she can) what's next.

Director: Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka
Producer: Ryuji Otsuka
Screenwriter: Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka
Distributor: KimStim
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 10, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 2h 28m

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