In her second feature after the critically acclaimed “Don’t Look At Me That Way” (2015) Mongolian-German director Usienma again deals with characters in between two cultures. Considering her family moved to Germany when she was four years old, it is a theme which is very dear to her as it is obviously part of her biography. In interviews, she has explained how her relationship to Mongolia has changed over the years, a development which ran parallel to the country changing, with the place of her childhood years only existing in rural areas, as she explains in an interview with the German newspaper “Merkur”. Her second feature “Black Milk” takes place in these rural areas of Mongolia, showing its beauty, but also the clash of two cultures, two sets of gender identities embodied by two sisters who fittingly are called Ossi and Wessi.
After many years of living in Germany, Wessi...
After many years of living in Germany, Wessi...
- 7/3/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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