Dai Sijie
Nascimento : 1954-03-02, Chengdu, China
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Screenplay
China, década de 1980. Min, uma jovem órfã, viaja para estudar com um botanista de renome. Misterioso e autoritário, esse homem vive em uma ilha, transformada por ele em um enorme jardim. Ele vive com sua filha, An, que é obrigada a partilhar a existência solitária e distante do pai. Quando Min chega ao local, An a recebe com alegria e esperança. Rapidamente, as duas ficam inseparáveis e vêem sua relação evoluir para uma atração perturbadora, sensual e proibida. Incapazes de se separar, An e Min armam um plano perigoso para continuar habitando o mesmo teto.
Director
China, década de 1980. Min, uma jovem órfã, viaja para estudar com um botanista de renome. Misterioso e autoritário, esse homem vive em uma ilha, transformada por ele em um enorme jardim. Ele vive com sua filha, An, que é obrigada a partilhar a existência solitária e distante do pai. Quando Min chega ao local, An a recebe com alegria e esperança. Rapidamente, as duas ficam inseparáveis e vêem sua relação evoluir para uma atração perturbadora, sensual e proibida. Incapazes de se separar, An e Min armam um plano perigoso para continuar habitando o mesmo teto.
Novel
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.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Director
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.
Director
A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.
Director
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.
