I love movies set in rural China. The scenery is usually breathtaking and the various customs and traditions are fascinating. And from this point of view, "The Taste of Rice Flower" didn't disappoint. Set in a small Dai village along the Sino-Burmese border, the movie tackles a sensitive subject, China's left-behind children.

Chinese filmmaker Pengfei's 'Taste of Rice Flower,' bowing at Venice Days, revolves around a woman's struggle to reconnect with her teen daughter and her own cultural roots as part of the Dai ...

Beautiful, wise and lyrically resonant, "The Taste of Rice Flower" is rigorously unsentimental, but it's heart is bright with life, like a swooning dance of devotion performed in a limestone cave;...

“The Taste of Rice Flower” features one of Yunnan’s minorities, the Dai. With around 1.1 million members in China alone, the Dai people also have a significant presence in Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos. Similar to what he did with Beijing’s underground dwellers for “Underground Fragrance”, Pengfei spent a year living amongst the Dai to prepare for “The Taste of Rice Flower”.

“Taste of Rice Flower” is a meaningful, entertaining, and very beautiful film that manages to present a number of very serious topics through an enjoyable perspective that makes the film quite approachable, even to the mainstream audience.

THE TASTE OF RICE FLOWER depicts identity issues in today’s Chinese society, in this tiny town and both between and within the mother and daughter protagonists. And it does so elegantly, wisely and without exaggerations. The cinematography is as lyrical and breathtakingly beautiful as the scenery and scenography.

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