No Man's Land

Greed is the driving force of this story, and Pan Xiao, a lawyer who has to travel 500 kilometres across a rocky desert for the next trial, its driven protagonist. During his trip he finds himself beset by chance acquaintances, who are as grotesque as they are dangerous, and mysterious fellow travellers who have no qualms about using force. No Man’s Land is a visually compelling, philosophical parable about a society which has run completely off the rails, a society which knows no morals when it comes to the scramble for wealth and power. Conceived as an homage to the Italian Western à la Sergio Leone, the film also makes good use of its bleak and rugged desert location to convey the inner world of its protagonists.