Taming the Horse

Tong has just turned 30, and everything in his life is falling apart. He just left his job at a photography studio, his girlfriend is seeing another man, his mom is ill and his brother thinks he just isn't applying himself. Director Gu Tao reunites with his longtime friend in this portrait of a young man in the rapidly changing moral-less society that dominates the Chinese condition today. The evocative camerawork floats down the streets of Kunming as Tong ruminates on his love life and tries to find his place in the world. Over a year of Tong's life, each scintillatingly immersive observational scene entertains without judgment. (True/False Film Festival)