âGuo Ranâ Review: An Exquisite Chinese Close-Up of a Woman Increasingly Alone in Her Pregnancy
Li and gifted French DP Matthias Delvaux (âSnow Leopardâ) counterintuitively paint Yuâs anguish in tones of stark, sun-saturated white, whether on the tellingly under-decorated walls of her apartment or the neutral comfort of starched hospital sheets â presenting the world around her as a blank slate, empty but still open to reinvention.