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Wang Xiaoshuai scooped the 2005 Jury Prize at Cannes with
this story from rural China in the 1980s, which tells of
19 year old Qinghong's desire to make a life in the surroundings
she knows, rather than falling in with her father's dreams
of leaving for prosperity in Shanghai. The movie centres
on the discontented Wu Zemin, deeply protective of his beautiful
daughter. He's determined that she'll go to college in Shanghai
or Beijing and escape from the stultifying provincial life
that is suffocating him and his circle of more sophisticated
friends. A poignant family melodrama ensues as father and
daughter work out the conflict in their dreams.
2005 Jury Prize at Cannes
"Distinctly Chekhovian...
beautifully observed" - Philip French, The Observer
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