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She, a Chinese
She, a Chinese
“As a filmmaker born in a little village in rural China, who later came all the way to Beijing and then wandered in the West, I feel that any journey is a journey of the mind, colliding with a person’s destiny and the accidental choices of life, creating a completely unexpected present and an enigmatic future.” Xiaolu Guo (director)
She of the film’s title is Mei, an enigmatic young Chinese woman raised in a backwater and curious about different lives elsewhere. A combination of fate and restlessness sets her off on a journey, first to a city in her own country, where she finds love, and loses it. Still seeking, she travels to England, a foreign land of tasteless food and strange customs. But Mei’s journey is ultimately one to find herself. Structured over 12 chapters, the film has a lightness of touch to it even in its darker moments, and a sense of being thrust forward into the unknown that resonates deeply with the contemporary cross-cultural rhythms of our lives. In a way, this is a story beyond borders, addressing contemporary issues of identity, leaving and longing in a globalized world. In Mei’s experience of the unknown, one senses the personal experiences of filmmaker and novelist Xiaolu Guo who has herself followed a trajectory from China to the UK. PJ Harvey’s collaborator John Parish and Chinese rock bands supply a cutting-edge sounding score to this work of visual poetry that heralds the arrival of an exciting, original new voice in world cinema.
2009 Locarno Film Festival:Golden Leopard
Hamburg Film Festival: Screenplay Award
Toronto Film Festival
Pusan Film Festival
London Film Festival
About the Director
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo was born in China in 1973. Her first
novel translated into English, ‘Village of Stone’,
was selected for the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award. Her film The Short Concrete
Revolution (2004) was screened at more than 50
festivals worldwide. Her feature film How Is Your
Fish Today? (2006) premiered at the Edinburgh
Film Festival and was nominated for various
awards in Rotterdam and Sundance. Guo’s latest
film She, A Chinese received the Golden Leopard
Award at Locarno Film Festival.
SCREENINGS
| 21.02.2010 14:00 AFM Fitaş Salon 4 |
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| 17.02.2010 15:00 AFM Fitaş Salon 4 |
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OVERVIEW
- Director
- Xiaolu Guo ()
- Screenplay
- Xiaolu Guo ()
- Cast
- Huang Lu
- Zhang Lanli
- Xiao Xianpeng
- Li Jiyi
- Wu Leiming
- Zhou Chicheng
- Music
- John Parish
- Production Co.
- Tigerlily Films
- Distributor
- Films Boutique Jean-Christophe Simon
- Cinematography
- Zillah Bowes
- Editing
- Andrew Bird
- Producer
- Natasha Dack
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