SORRY for deleteing and reseeding, should be fine now.
I found it impossible to get this film from usenet or from torrents, and it hasnt been posted here. I know it was made with UK
money (UK Lottery money funded it), but I think it belongs here so I'm sharing it with you. If anyone decides to nuke my upload,
it then so be it.
Plot/synopsis (from a www.guardian.co.uk review):
This film (of her own novel), by London-based Chinese novelist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo, won the Golden Leopard at Locarno and
has been liked and admired on the festival circuit. Understandably so. It is bold and unparochial in a doggedly low-key style,
following the story of Li Mei (Lu Huang), a young woman who journeys from a remote Chinese village to London, finding that "the
west" – an idealised place of impossibly glamorous consumer riches – is just as tough as the place she left.
(....spoilers deleted here....).
Guo's direction is reticent, perhaps more confident in the Chinese half, and the movie itself is less passionate than, say, Nick
Broomfield's Ghosts, about exploitation in the UK. The rather bookish inter-title chapter headings add to a prevailing sense of
detachment. The move to London gives the film scope and sweep, and the denouement of her relationship with Spikey is certainly
dramatic, yet the tone of the film is persistently subdued: creating the strange, almost surreal sense that Britain is exactly
like China. From the viewpoint of the dispossessed, it's probably a fair assessment.
Cast: Lu Huang, Wei Yibo, Chris Ryman, Geoffrey Hutching
Directed: Xiaolu Guo
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Runtime: 103 min
Also Known As: n/a
Country: UK
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Source...............: Various filesharing sites
File- general info:
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