Guranay

January. 01,2019

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Desert Environmentalist Mongolian

Trailer Synopsis Cast

This film is a realistic record of a sixty-year-old couple living in a remote village (Gurenay) in the Badain Jaran Desert of Alashan, Inner Mongolia plant thousands of mu of ammodendron and euphratica to fight against expanding deserts.

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Reviews

BootDigest

2019/01/01

Such a frustrating disappointment

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TrueHello

2019/01/02

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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filippaberry84

2019/01/03

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Maleeha Vincent

2019/01/04

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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