When did China's film modeling aesthetics begin to rise?

Yellow Land is a literary film adapted from Michelle's novel Echo of a Deep Valley. Directed by Chen Kaige, starring Wang Xueyin and Snow White. The film tells the story of Cui Qiao, a poor girl from rural areas in northern Shaanxi. Since she was a child, her father decided to let her get married early. She can't get rid of bad luck, so she has to express her inner pain with the help of the song "I believe in heaven"

The film 1985 won the Best Photography Award in the 5th China Golden Rooster Award, and 1985 won the Yin Bao Award in the 38th Locarno International Film Festival.

Film evaluation

If "One and Eight" is the pioneering work of China's fifth-generation directors, then "Yellow Land" is a film work that marks the real rise of the fifth-generation directors. Chen Kaige's "Yellow Land" strongly formed a new image in film style and language, and profoundly influenced the early narrative tendency and style tone of the fifth generation directors.

The photography with large color blocks and strong sense of color, the folk customs of the yellow land in the northwest and the reflective narration of China culture make China's films present a different style, which also marks that the vision of the fifth generation is different from the historical perspective of China directors in the past.