Dai Sijie

Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time. A night peacock, by Fabre’s definition, is a moth with the life goal of finding their soul mate.

Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time. A night peacock, by Fabre’s definition, is a moth with the life goal of finding their soul mate.

고아소녀 민은 유명한 식물학자의 제자가 되어 공부를 시작한다. 비밀스러운 인물인 그 교수는 섬 하나를 화려한 정원으로 꾸며 딸과 단 둘이 살고 있다. 독재적인 아버지 아래서 외롭고 고립된 생활을 하던 교수의 딸 안은 민이 도착하자 고독에서 벗어날 수 있으리란 희망으로 반가워한다. 급속히 친구가 된 두 소녀는 서로의 매력에 이끌려 관능적이고 금지된 관계로 발전한다.

고아소녀 민은 유명한 식물학자의 제자가 되어 공부를 시작한다. 비밀스러운 인물인 그 교수는 섬 하나를 화려한 정원으로 꾸며 딸과 단 둘이 살고 있다. 독재적인 아버지 아래서 외롭고 고립된 생활을 하던 교수의 딸 안은 민이 도착하자 고독에서 벗어날 수 있으리란 희망으로 반가워한다. 급속히 친구가 된 두 소녀는 서로의 매력에 이끌려 관능적이고 금지된 관계로 발전한다.

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Restaurant owner Tang the 11th, learning his older brother, Tang the First is ill, returns to the his remote native village, long plagued by leprosy. Superstition holds that a cure can be obtained when a family of five sons and five daughters makes possible the death of a fish from the Lake of Heaven, since the leprosy remedy is in the flesh of this fish. It just so happens that Tang the 11th has five sons, four daughters, and a pregnant wife.

A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.

In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four Eyes" and, with about 16 other older boys and men, he's made to carry muck up a mountainside, make bricks, saw logs, and sing daily to Chairman Mao of his faults. There's camaraderie among the five youths, especially with a young pickpocket named Baimao, and Tian is also drawn to a silent monk who cares for him when he falls ill and the others expect him to die. The camp is remote, so there are no fences or walls. Tian longs to escape.