Fiction

WU QIONG DONG

PERPETUAL MOTION
Ning Ying
VR, China 2005
90 min
V'07

Perpetual Motion tells about four powerful women, epitomizing the high society of today's China. Behind a façade of reciprocal flatteries and smiles, the four women harbor lots of hatred. During the Spring Festival holiday at Niuniu's home they engage each other in an intimate confrontation, which becomes the coral narration of a whole generation. Ning Ying's cinema is full of arguments but devoid of rhetoric, merciless but not cynical, true to life within a powerful mise-en-scène which emphasizes images and searches for their crisp beauty. In such sense, Ning Ying is a «master» for the generation of Jia Zhang-ke. (Cristina Piccino)

This is a film about women, made by women. But I don't think it can be defined as a feminist movie, especially if «feminism» is understood as a copy of the European and American women liberation movement of the Seventies. Here, the effort is essentially to express something very up-to-date. Perpetual Motion is a film about a whole generation that has not yet healed the wounds of its past, while it's running with blazing speed into the future. (Ning Ying)

Credits
  • Hung Huang - Niuniu
  • Liu Sola - Lala
  • Li Qinqin - Qinqin
  • Ping Yanni - Madam Ye
  • Zhang Hanzhi - Mutter Zhang
  • Ning Ying
  • Liu Sola
  • Hung Huang
  • Ning Ying
  • Andrea Cavazutti
  • Han Bing
  • Ning Ying
  • Liu Sola
  • Yang Xiaoping
Beijing Happy Village Ltd. Lianbao Apt. 511b 100027 Beijing, China T 10 6415 9644 eurasia@public3.bta.net.cn

Eurasia Communications Ltd. Lianbao Apt. 511b 100027 Beijing, China T 10 6415 9644 eurasia@public3.bta.net.cn

35 mm
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