Films from Liu Jiayin, Luo Dong and Wang Zichuan, all screened at the Shanghai Film Festival, showcase China’s emerging talents.
Writer-director Liu Jiayin established herself as one of the most exciting and unique talents to emerge from China in the 2000s — and then duly disappeared into academia. She’s been nurturing generations of screenwriters at the Beijing Film Academy for a number of years. Her first two films –– played at Berlin, and then Cannes and Rotterdam, respectively, and were marked by her ability to mix documentary and narrative styles, with long, languid takes.is both a return and a return to form.
There was a noticeable number of films at SIFF that looked at the issues of aging, and how characters cope with facing mortality – put it down to the past few years of collective global trauma – but Dong’s film focuses more on providing inspiration, in the form of a charismatic 70-year-old who’s looking for love, and who doesn’t care what people think about the lengths she’s prepared to go to find it.
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