For anybody in Shanghai this Friday:
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007MARIA’S CHOICE
The Shanghai International Film Club
Chinese films with English subtitles
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GETTING HOME (Luo Ye Gui Geng)
Directed by Zhang Yang
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Friday, 2 February 2007, 9:00 pm
Kodak Super Cinema World (details below)
60 RMB
No RSVP necessary – just come and enjoy!
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Director Zhang Yang is traveling from Beijing specifically to
participate in a Q&A session with our audience at the end of the
screening. This is a truly unusual opportunity to share insights with
the creators of the film – don’t miss it!
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A black comedy in the “road movie” genre, Getting Home was inspired by a
news item concerning a poor migrant worker who embarked on a long,
arduous journey to bring the corpse of his co-worker back to his
hometown.
In the movie, middle-aged farmer Lao Zhao heads to Shenzhen to for work.
Along the way, however, his hometown friend Lao Wang dies in an
accident, and Zhao begins the odd journey of carrying his friend’s body
home without revealing that he is transporting a dead body.
(More information about the film in the original post.)
Zhang Yang is also the director of Shower, and the movie features several stars you will probably recognize from TV and other films, such as Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan.
To get there and join the list (which I am not affiliated with):
Kodak Super Cinema World
Metro City, 5th Floor (tell the taxi driver “Mei Luo Cheng”)
1111 Zhao Jia Bang Lu (in Xu Jia Hui, across from the Gateway
Shopping Center)
For additional information, call Connie Gao at 1370-191-5733.
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