Before the Flood

January. 01,2012      
Rating:
7.2
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Before the Flood is a study of the final weeks of a dying city, as thousand-year-old Fengjie on the Yangtze River is reduced to rubble and its inhabitants uprooted to make way for the new Three Gorges Dam that will flood the entire valley.

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Reviews

GurlyIamBeach
2012/01/01

Instant Favorite.

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Claysaba
2012/01/02

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

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AshUnow
2012/01/03

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Fatma Suarez
2012/01/04

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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