Mr. Tree

I saw this film as part of the Rotterdam Film Festival 2012. The announcement text on the festival website sounded intriguing, covering urbanization of Chinese villages, whether they want it or not.

However, the net result on screen had zero political contents. It is just some not-so-interesting story about someone not-so-interesting with his family and friends.

I badly missed information about their environment (in two senses of the word). And it has also nothing that looks like a documentary about China and the people that live there.

As far as I'm concerned, this film is unnecessary.