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Once Upon A Time Proletarian
While filming her drama ‘She, a Chinese’, director Xiaolu Guo found herself captivated by the peasants and onlookers who had gathered to watch the proceedings, and turned her camera to them. “I needed to film the dusty faces of the street, the curious and amazed faces of the peasants…rather than to be cleared out from the camera field.” She went on to film their stories, relayed here in twelve chapters, which stitch together a patchwork quilt of post-Maoist China, from the peasant working the field, looking back fondly on Mao’s days, to the jaded former soldier turned arms smuggler, to the teenage car washer struggling to adapt to city life. A theme running through these arresting, visually poetic vignettes is the often unappealing material desires driving these lives, reflecting the struggles behind China’s shift from a communal society to the capitalist powerhouse it is becoming today.
“A fresh literary touch – each chapter features a separate universe, where images appear to seamlessly match what is said and where words seem depicted more than pronounced.” - Toronto International Film Festival
Strands
- Festivals:
- Venice Film Festival 2009, Toronto Film festival 2009, Pusan International Film Festival 2009,
Credits
- Additional Music:
- Matt Scott
- Cinematographer:
- Zhuzi X Vian
- Editor:
- Philippe Ciompi, Arthur de Lipowski
- Festival Supervisor:
- Cis Bierinckx
- Music Consultant:
- Klaus Maeck
- Sound Designer:
- Philippe Ciompi
Director Filmography
- 2009, She, A Chinese (LA CHINOISE 2009 - 中国姑娘 )
- 2008, An Archeologist’s Sunday
- 2007, We Went to Wonderland (冷酷仙境)
- 2006, How is Your Fish Today? (今天的鱼怎么样？)
- 2004, The Concrete Revolution (嵌入肉体的城市)
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