Fiction
HAN JIA
Winter Vacation
Li Hongqi
China 2010
91 min
V'10
No other director can touch poet-novelist Li Hongqi when it comes to deadpan studies of the raging emptiness of life in modern China. His new film charts the last day of the winter vacation and, even more provocatively, the first day of school. It shows nothing the Film Bureau could object to, but effortlessly demolishes every post- Olympics platitude about China’s “growth” and quality of life. Shot in Inner Mongolia but set in some dark recess of the mind, it offers social realism as a protracted hallucination, underscored by avant-garde noises from Zuoxiao Zuzhou and The Top Floor Circus. (Tony Rayns)
Credits
- Bai Junjie
- Zhang Naqi
- Bai Jinfeng
- Xie Ying
- Wang Hui
- Bao Lei
- Li Hongqi
- Qin Yurui
- Guo Rn’ru
- Li Hongqi
- Zuoxiao Zuzhou
- The Top Floor Circus
Alex Chung
Capricci Films
HD
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