Shortfilms
HE SHANG DE AI QING
CRY ME A RIVER
Jia Zhangke
VR, China, ESP, FRA 2008
19 min
V'08
An ancestral city. Through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we obseverve the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth ist still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existance does their culture require?
This film is screened together with Xiao Jia hui jia.
Credits
- Tao Zhao - (Qiao)
- Lei Hao
- Hong Weiwang
- Xiao Dongguo
- Jia Zhangke
- Wang Yu
Xstream Pictures
Xstream Pictures, Suite 303, Block 7, Jin Qiu Jia Yuan, No. 6 Zhi Chun Road, Beijing 100088, China T 86 10 8235 0984, jiazhangke@sohu.net
Video (Betacam SP)
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