Movie

The Twelfth Lunar Month

“"If you're from the North and familiar with these traditional customs, this film is worth watching."”

2019

The film explores the evolution of the bride price custom (彩礼) in contemporary rural China. It depicts how this tradition, once a cultural practice, has gradually transformed into a problematic "bad habit" (陋习). Under the pressure of exorbitant bride prices, families develop twisted values, worldviews, vanity, and comp…