Based on a popular novel, Ann Hui's The Postmoder Life of My Aunt turns its affectionate gaze on Ru-tang Ye (Si-qin), a woman in her 60s and from the provinces, and her struggles to carve out a dignified life in the urban tangle of Shanghai, where seemingly everyone is focused on personal profit. Hui and screenwriter Li Qiang have a knack for humorous observation, and frequent Takeshi Kitano collaborator Joe Hisaishi’s melodic score embraces both the film’s playful spirit and its more emotional undercurrents.
中國 China / 2006 / 111 min /
普通話對白，中英文字幕 In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles
導演 Dir : 許鞍華 Ann Hui
演員 Cast : 斯琴高娃 Gao-wa Si-qin、周潤發 Yun-fat Chow、趙薇 Wei Zhao
Middle-aged miner Han (Han) arrives in Fengjie after 16 years to track down his ex-wife, Missy. Nurse Shen (Zhao) also arrives from Shanxi, looking for her husband, Guo, who has been missing in action for two years. Aptly titled Still Life, the film is a slow-burnt, contemplative look at spiritual/emotional malaise in modern China while themes like estrangement, cultural disconnection, and forcible uprooting in a rapidly expanding economy are being explored. Golden Lion winner of Venice Film Festival 2006.
中國 China / 2006 / 108 min /
普通話對白，中英文字幕 In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles
導演 Dir : 賈樟柯 Zhang-ke Jia
演員 Cast : 趙濤 Tao Zhao、韓三明 San-ming Han
Money (and maybe a little bit of love) makes the world go around in Lost in Beijing. Ping-guo (Fan) and her husband An Kun both work at a foot massage parlour run by Lin Dong(Leung) and his wife. Lin forces himself on Ping-guo, she becomes pregnant and the situation is sorted out with a contract between the two couples. In this involving portrait of an emotional menage a quatre, the actors eloquently explore the concept of being lost from different perspectives - from An’s materialism to Lin’s emotional vacuum.
中國 China / 2007 / 114 min /
普通話對白，中英文字幕 In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles
導演 Dir : 李玉 Yu Li
演員 Cast : 梁家輝 Tony Leung、范冰冰 Bing-bing Fan
Struggling to find work, college-educated Xue-mei (Huang) is delighted when a friend informs her of a well-paid employment selling medicinal herbs. She travels to a remote mountainous village and wakes up the next day only to find herself being sold as the bride to a middle-aged bachelor. Outraged and horrified, Xue-mei tries to flee but soon realises that escape seems impossible... On one level a psychological thriller, on another a portrait of a deeply dysfunctional society, Blind Mountain is a major leap beyond Yang Li’s feature debut Blind Shaft.
中國 China / 2007 / 103 min /
普通話對白，中英文字幕 In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles
導演 Dir : 李楊 Yang Li
演員 Cast : 黃璐 Huang Lu
Getting Home’s plot follows Zhao, a construction worker whose best friend Liu dies, leaving him to fulfil a promise that he will return his body to his distant hometown. Short on money, the determined Zhao decides to carry his friend’s corpse on his back, relying on help from the people he meets on his travels. The latest effort from Yang Zhang, who previously delighted viewers with the likes of Shower, the film sees the Sixth Generation director continuing his rich vein of form with another honest tale of ordinary people.
中國 China / 2007 / 110 min /
普通話對白，中英文字幕 In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles
導演 Dir : 張楊 Yang Zhang
演員 Cast : 趙本山 Ben-shan Zhao、胡軍 Jun Hu、午馬 Ma Wu、宋丹丹 Dan-dan Song
