Eight characters dialogue in a surreal way in limited environments. They talk a lot but without raising their voices. They threaten each other but do not make any sudden gestures. Like puppets trapped in a room, they express their frustration without finishing anything.

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https://nitro.download/view/B3E17483DA558E7/The_The.mkv

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:English hardsubs

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Congolese democracy entrepreneur Lebrun takes us on a tangled, tender and cruel adventure to finalise a Chinese T-shirt deal which is turning sour. Between documentary and fiction, this tragicomedy sketches the outlines of a world without the West.

1.03GB | 1 h 14 min | 1280×720 | mkv

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Language:French
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Synopsis:
An indifferent man with an unusual outlook on life embarks on a strange journey while carrying a large bag of rice. Mr. Mao is playing a game of hide-and-seek with his wife when he uses the opportunity to run away from home. Upon arriving at the home of his friend Xiao He in the nearby town of Liaocheng, Mr. Mao’s new life begins. Gradually, Mr. Mao and Xiao He are drawn into a mysterious love affair. In the end, mysterious drifter Mr. Mao takes his bag of rice and disappears into the hills to find his true fate.

https://nitro.download/view/27C12FB71E9C55F/So_Much_Rice_(2005,_Li_Hongqi)-JM.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English, Simplified Chinese

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An ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin’s home, a friend who lives with his father, brother and nephew. Like most contemporary teenagers, these youths want to enjoy their last day of holiday and simply hang out in this place where nothing ever seems likely to happen. Their conversations are desultory and they sometimes seem to argue for argument’s sake. One of them, Laowu, talks frankly with his girlfriend about how teenage love might affect their studies, while Laobao questions school’s value and relevance to real life.

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Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English hardsub

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QUOTE:
Topics from social awkwardness to forced nutrition are among the subjects discussed by a man and the various acquaintances that drop by to sit on his couch during a vacation in “Routine Holiday,” a film so utterly devoid of pleasure or meaning it defies comparison. Pointless extended silences and uncomfortable spatial dynamics define this affected drama far more than insightful commentary does.

“Routine Holiday” is a nearly perfect festival movie. Wide release is not an option for a film that that takes the “motion” out of “motion pictures,” and only increased post-Olympic China fever will stoke any interest in even art house release overseas. Distribution in Asia, where Hollywood is king, is also a long shot.

A national holiday is the impetus for Li Hongqi’s (NETPAC winner “So Much Rice”) plodding meditation on China’s socio-political ills. The locus for a series of wooden conversations is Tuo Ga’s (Yang Bo) home, where a parade of friends and relatives drop by on their day off to say … absolutely nothing. The most excitement comes from the Lovelorn Man (Xiao He), who would really like to have an affair — and goes so far as to tell his wife so. The dour space inhabited by a man, his son, two brothers, and a committed couple is suitably bleak, and echoes the characters’ bleak worldviews.

Credit should be given to Li for avoiding the most common tropes of Mainland Chinese cinema of the last few years, namely the plight of migrant workers and the stresses felt by disaffected youth in the newly modernized China. But that alone cannot make up for the utter lack of storytelling prowess or sympathetic characters, and for the sheer volume of witless navel-gazing on display in “Routine Holiday.”

The film is also extremely masculine, with nary a female voice to be heard. The performances are adequate at best — it’s difficult to differentiate poor acting from the characters’ vapidity — and the whole affair smacks of pandering to the vague notion of what defines cinematic artistic integrity.
From Hollywoodreporter

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Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English Chinese French idx/sub included

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