Mysterious, sublime and elegiac, director Yang Chao's odyssey blends impressive pictures with fantasy, poetry and background to develop an intricate magical universe. From the Shanghai metropolis to the snow-capped Tibet mountain, Gao Chun guides his freight up the Yangtze, a river that has actually nurtured a centuries-old world. He comes across An Lu, a beautiful lady that shows up in a various identity at every port tape-recorded by a verse book. Longing for her company, he realizes she progressively transforms more youthful as he travels upstream. He begins to wonder whether An Lu is supernatural or he is taking a trip not only precede but also in time. After passing a pagoda that resounds Buddha's voice, a swamped community came back somewhere else, the grandiose Three Gorges Dam and lots of various other areas where lives have been changed, he lastly arrives at the beginning of the Yangtze, where he introduces the trick of his past and also An Lu.
Mysterious, sublime and elegiac, director Yang Chao's odyssey blends impressive pictures with fantasy, poetry and background to develop an intricate magical universe. From the Shanghai metropolis to the snow-capped Tibet mountain, Gao Chun guides his freight up the Yangtze, a river that has actually nurtured a centuries-old world. He comes across An Lu, a beautiful lady that shows up in a various identity at every port tape-recorded by a verse book. Longing for her company, he realizes she progressively transforms more youthful as he travels upstream. He begins to wonder whether An Lu is supernatural or he is taking a trip not only precede but also in time. After passing a pagoda that resounds Buddha's voice, a swamped community came back somewhere else, the grandiose Three Gorges Dam and lots of various other areas where lives have been changed, he lastly arrives at the beginning of the Yangtze, where he introduces the trick of his past and also An Lu.