Sanxia haoren Jia Zhang Ke :: China :: 2006 :: 1h48 Coal miner San-Ming arrives in the southern Chinese town of Fangje looking for his estranged wife and daughter, whom he has not seen in sixteen years. With an address in hand, he is taken to the rivers edge and told the house lies somewhere [...]
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Curse of the Golden Flower Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia Zhang Yimou :: China :: 2006 :: 1h54 An epic Shakespearean drama unfolds when characters with nerves of steel and the agility of phantoms clash in tragic blood-stained events cloaked by a stunning, tranquil beauty. A spectacular experience of old school theatre in [...]
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Jiang cheng xia ri Wang Chao :: China/ France :: 2006 :: 1h28 Aging teacher Qiming returns to the city of Wuhan (south central China) after having lived in exile in the countryside most of his life. Picked up at the port by his beautiful daughter, his sets out to track down is out-of-view son. [...]
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Les Filles du botanisteDai Sijie :: France, China :: 2005 :: 1h45Orphaned girl Li Min gets sent to a draconian botanist for a schooling placement where she meets An, his patient and dutiful daughter…. The violent shocks in the story-line do not make watching any easier either, forcing the viewer to take on a very lenient position towards the characters and their play, a requirement which was easily avoided with more attention to detail.
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DumplingsFruit Chan :: China (HK) :: 2005 :: 1h31While they wait for their furniture to be shipped over from Europe, Mr and Mrs Li float through their empty lives, leading her back in dreams of beauty and the simple desires of youth…. Make a conscious decision on whether or not to go and see this one.The title is symbollically well found.Realistically: seeing the characters’ non-relationship as their unbuilt kitchen (house)Conceptually: contemporary cooking’s promise of a refined purity of taste …
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