Xue Ma’s films are radically unique. There’s a strange romance, explicit and implicit, and a profane magic that permeates the Chinese ex-pat’s White River (2023), as well as her most recent film, Wilde’s Room. While the themes, situations, and relationships the director explores are serious, complex, and sometimes painful, her process is not. Lightness and, as she defined it at our first meeting, “sunshine mind,” characterize her thinking and the way she approaches her art.
In White River, recently released in...
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