Overview of articles
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Li Xia’s Salon
There are African women and African women. Mthiyane is an African woman. In China, she went into a hairdresser’s and said: ‘Do something with my…Published on: -
Dong
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Too Young
Striking, captivating story about the feelings and sensitivities of two adolescents who embark on an unlikely friendship at school.Published on: -
Maiden Work
Very unorthodox film offers several accurate yet disconcerting insights into the activities of very contemporary young artists in Beijing.Published on: -
Scenery
Brand-new Chinese film about a young and ambitious lawyer, a female taxi-driver, a hairdresser and a rapist the lawyer has to find.Published on: -
Flowers of Shanghai
Undercooled intrigues in a beautiful portrayal of a fashionable nineteenth-century brothel in Shanghai. Breathtaking costumes and enchanting lightingPublished on: -
Jam
Light-hearted realism. A young couple steals the wrong car. The car has lots of stories that take them to people who don’t want to be…Published on: -
Xiao Wu
‘No budget’ feature starts as an exercise in raw social realism, but slowly develops into something more special. Xiao Wu is a scummy-yet-likeable petPublished on: -
Yingchunke Zhi Fengbo
Brilliant ‘chamber’ play with epic dimensions and super cast at the time of the Yuan dynasty.Published on: -
Chung Tsai
Ambitious low-budget film concentrates on the perils of the teenager Ah Cung and his family in the slums of Taipei.Published on: