She, A Chinese
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She, A Chinese
Directed by: Xiaolu Guo
Runtime: 103 min
Year: 2010
Country: UK/France/Germany
Language(s): Mandarin w/ English subtitles
Website: Director’s Website
Li Mei (Huang Lu) has never been more than five miles outside of her small rural village in China, but dreams of the life beyond the reaches of her nagging mother and this dull town. A run-in with a local thug convinces her to leave her village for the big city, where unable to hold a job in the factory, she finds work in the Love Salon, where haircuts are not the only services provided. Soon, Li falls in love with customer and hit-man Spikey, but when the love affair takes an unexpectedly tragic turn, she finds herself headed West.
Is Mei a victim of fate or is her plight of her own making? Is she a deplorable parasite or a resourceful survivor? A film adaptation of director Xiaolu Guo’s own book and winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, this film will have you deep in thought long after it has ended.
—Sunbin Song
Five Pound Hollywood
Directed by: Gillian Pachter
Runtime: 15 min
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Language(s): Mandarin w/ English subtitles
Lian arrives on the streets of London to sell pirated DVDs. Her only reminder of the life she left in China is a home movie that she keeps hidden. But it doesn’t stay hidden for long.
