Those wowed by Chinese-Korean helmer Zhang Lu's minimalist debut feature "Tang Poetry" will no doubt warm to his equally minimal follow-up "Grain in Ear." Others will fault Zhang's need to belabor ...
Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu’s "Grain in Ear" won the grand prix in the competition category at the Cinema Novo Film Festival in Belgium that ended on March 17, according to Dongsoong Art Center, ...
A quietly chilling melodrama of alienation and repressed fury, Zhang Lu’s second feature mercilessly exposes the disempowerment and dispossession that all too frequently characterize life in today’s ...
Cui, a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society, has a husband in jail and a son to support. She barely makes a living selling kimchi to workers along the side of a bleak, ...