Zhao Junzhi Movies
A pair of murderers cover up their crimes via the archaic working conditions of coal mining in China in this award-winning psychological drama from director Li Yang. Blind Shaft centers on two men who have a grisly scheme: They persuade their victims to work in a local mine, plot their "accidental" deaths, then pose as the relatives of the dead men to collect their meager compensation. But when one of the killers starts to feel sympathy for their next victim, an ambitious young man, he listens to his conscience instead of his amoral co-conspirator. Blind Shaft won the Silver Bear at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
- Starring:
- Li Yixiang, Wang Shuangbao, (more)
- 2002
- NR
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Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The Little Chinese Seamstress), a film adaptation of his own best-selling autobiographical novel. Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They work with the peasants under the supervision of the village head man (Wang Shuangbao), who considers their violin to be a symbol of the bourgeoisie. Luo and Ma both fall in love with the little Chinese seamstress (Ziiou Xun), the daughter of the tailor (Chung Zhijun), and they read her forbidden works of Western literature including French writers Balzac and Dumas. The conclusion finds the two men reminincing about their experiences 30 years later. Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- 2002
Hu Zengxue's Beijing Suburb is about a group of artists struggling to make a living and avoid political persecution. Fang Jian (Wang Chuyu) is a politically rebellious performance artist who lives in an apartment house with other young artists. When the police arrest one of the artists, Chen Dong (Muo Gen), the rest of the group responds in various ways. Fang sells a painting to a possible patron, but also begins an affair with the man's wife, Li (Zhao Junzhi). Fang is arrested in the middle of his performance, but a bribe from Li keeps him out of prison. Beijing Suburb is frank in its depictions of sex and the political realities of China. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Wang Chuyu, Zhao Junzhi, (more)
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