“Growing Apart” (Aka “Vanished Girl”) premiered at First International Film Festival in 2022, where it won the Best Performance Award and the Audience Award for Best Film, followed by a Jury Special Mention at Beijing International Film Festival 2023 and numerous nominations. Director and co-writer Long Lingyun was inspired for his project by the true story of a friend whose life had been heavily shaped by the consequences of the infamous Chinese one-child policy.
“Growing Apart” is screening at Mint Chinese Film Festival
In an opening scene that is evocative of Chungking Express' iconic sequence with Brigitte Lin, a mysterious young woman wearing a glamorous wig, lipstick and sunglasses walks briskly through an indoor market to meet a shady character and collect a fake ID. We will soon meet the girl behind the disguise; she is He Sheng (Shang Yuxian) a university student living with her strict and unpermissive divorcee mother He...
“Growing Apart” is screening at Mint Chinese Film Festival
In an opening scene that is evocative of Chungking Express' iconic sequence with Brigitte Lin, a mysterious young woman wearing a glamorous wig, lipstick and sunglasses walks briskly through an indoor market to meet a shady character and collect a fake ID. We will soon meet the girl behind the disguise; she is He Sheng (Shang Yuxian) a university student living with her strict and unpermissive divorcee mother He...
- 1/28/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
By Ian Shanghai
At the dawn of the year 2000, Beijing's hutong, these narrow communal alleys nowadays dedicated to mass tourism, were not exactly the gentrified cozy district it turned to be: promiscuity, resourcefulness and street codes infused with rigid traditions are customary. Mrs. Wang is used to cope with these, but lately this is not exactly the best time of her life.
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The stock of pirated DVDs she was selling for a living has just been seized by the local police while the parents of the kid she was babysitting on daytime went away without an address, escaping from unpaid rents. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the family of a mahjong gambler her husband has crippled in a fight is chasing her, claiming direct compensation in cash. With her hopeless husband in jail and a kid to get rid of, without the infamous hukou...
At the dawn of the year 2000, Beijing's hutong, these narrow communal alleys nowadays dedicated to mass tourism, were not exactly the gentrified cozy district it turned to be: promiscuity, resourcefulness and street codes infused with rigid traditions are customary. Mrs. Wang is used to cope with these, but lately this is not exactly the best time of her life.
Check also this interview
The stock of pirated DVDs she was selling for a living has just been seized by the local police while the parents of the kid she was babysitting on daytime went away without an address, escaping from unpaid rents. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the family of a mahjong gambler her husband has crippled in a fight is chasing her, claiming direct compensation in cash. With her hopeless husband in jail and a kid to get rid of, without the infamous hukou...
- 9/5/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Swedish pic Mother, Couch! starring Taylor Russell and Ewan McGregor alongside Ellen Burstyn is one of the titles San Sebastian has set to compete for its New Directors award during its 71st edition, running September 22 — 30.
The film is from the debut feature filmmaker Niclas Larsson and follows three estranged children who are brought together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store. The previously unannounced film is a US – Danish – Swedish co-production. Unlike the other titles announced today, the mystery project had no accompanying image.
Eleven productions from nineteen countries will compete for San Sebastian’s Kutxabank-New Directors Award. Of all the selected movies, seven are debut works, while the rest are second features. The Kutxabank-New Directors Award comes with a 50,000 euro cash prize divided equally between the director and the distributor of the film in Spain. Films in the New Directors section are also...
The film is from the debut feature filmmaker Niclas Larsson and follows three estranged children who are brought together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store. The previously unannounced film is a US – Danish – Swedish co-production. Unlike the other titles announced today, the mystery project had no accompanying image.
Eleven productions from nineteen countries will compete for San Sebastian’s Kutxabank-New Directors Award. Of all the selected movies, seven are debut works, while the rest are second features. The Kutxabank-New Directors Award comes with a 50,000 euro cash prize divided equally between the director and the distributor of the film in Spain. Films in the New Directors section are also...
- 7/27/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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