Overview of articles
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Little Flower
Wound up to a maximum fever pitch, fusing melodrama, romance and war epic, Little Flower is a big movie in every sense. Joan Chen became…Published on: -
Way Out
Classic, beautifully shot drama about a simple Chinese peasant who goes out stealing and shifts his boundaries further and further.Published on: -
18 Days
A boyish prank but also clearly a politically motivated performance. An artist attacks a neighbouring country.Published on: -
At the Beach
A hidden masterpiece: one part rural elegy, one part urban romance, forged together in an editing tour de force. Rarely screened in China or outside,Published on: -
Crazy Man
In the evening a strange man performs a kind of ritual for himself in a square. The film maker sees a performance artist in the…Published on: -
Ten Years
A lonely woman and a photographer meet every couple of years on a train and their virtually wordless bond expresses a world of feelings.Published on: -
Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Part 1-5
Yang Fudong is one of the greatest modern Chinese artists. Outside the context of museums and galleries, he also turns out to be a great…Published on: -
My Memories of Old Beijing
One of the greatest works of Chinese cinema, this lyrical masterpiece recreates 1920s Beijing through the eyes of a preternaturally intelligent youngPublished on: -
Evening Rain
Wu Yigong transmutes political protest into lyric poetry in this tale of the poet Qiushi, who is captured by Cultural Revolution radicals, travellingPublished on: -
Sacrificed Youth
This lyrical, gently eroticised coming-of-age drama of a young Chinese woman ‘sent down’ to live in an ethnic minority village in remote southwesternPublished on: