China

Nankin, nowadays. Luo Haitao has been hired by Wang Ping’s wife to spy on the passionate relationship between her husband and a man. But Luo Haitao loses control of the situation: he’s drawn with his girlfriend, Li Jing, to the fever of drunken spring nights.

The insubordinate nature of Spring Fever detonated when, bypassing the Chinese authorities, the film premiered in Cannes competition during the five-year ban from filmmaking imposed on Lou Ye. A film that challenges social and moral taboos, alive with stirring rebelliousness and queer sensuality.Read More »

A prosecutor on his last case deals with a colleague to exonerate a suspect, making the law just.Read More »

Synopsis:
A country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works as an escort in a karaoke bar. Yanhong introduces him to a policeman who sympathizes with his plight and agrees to help him to find his son. The two quickly become friends. Yanhong also presents her father to her boyfriend, the owner of the karaoke, an older man, who drives a luxury car. However when the four of them meet for dinner one night the old policeman recognizes the boyfriend as a man he arrested over ten years ago…Read More »

letterboxd review:
shouldn’t surprise anyone that when it comes to china, an obscure film that doesn’t even have a single rating on imdb could reveal itself as one of the most important pieces of their film history lol

the abudant shots of legs and feet to establish location and status are very hong kong, but that specific fluidity the cameras has traversing intimate space is uniquely china again. even on a watermarked, low quality chinese (i think bootleg) streaming salvage of a copy you can’t mistake the liveliness of this era. Read More »

Tony Rayns, Time Out Film Guide wrote:
Zhang Zeming’s beautiful debut feature opens in the early 1960s, just before the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution, and focuses on a Cantonese composer unable to get his music published or performed. His troubles with the authorities are lifelong; he entered ‘New China’ with an opium habit, a black mark that cost him his job, broke up his marriage, and pushed him into the shadows, where the only people who will play his stuff are a street orchestra of blind musicians. All his hopes are invested in his son, a promising musician, who runs off as a ‘Red Guard’ and returns ten years later a street-smart delinquent. Tracing an elaborate pattern of betrayals and disappointments, the films avoids all taint of miserabilism. The spirit running through it is that of the music itself: haunting and elegiac, but also strong and proudly rooted in traditional Cantonese culture.Read More »

Synopsis
The film tells the story of a recently unemployed factory worker in the city of Anyang in Henan province, who comes across an abandoned child. Discovering that the child belongs to a local prostitute and mobster, the poor worker agrees to take care of the baby. When the mobster discovers that he is dying of cancer, however, he attempts to take the child back, now his only heir.Read More »

Quote:
For ten days, in a city in the far west of China, a young Chinese actor and a Belgian filmmaker embark on a relationship that blurs the line between fictional performance and documented reality. The protagonists, played by Jin Jing and Matthias Delvaux, go on a hunt for intimacy in a city that is unfamiliar to them bothRead More »

In the remote Yumei Township of Tibet, the Sangjie Quzha family was once the only household. For 34 years, they persevered against harsh environments, external threats, and the loss of loved ones, guarding the borders through livestock herding. Like resilient Gesang flowers, they rooted themselves on the snowy frontier, safeguarding thousands of square kilometers of territory for their homeland.
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A Chinese woman lives for herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.Read More »