Monthly Archives: May 2013

Peacock, directed by Gu Changwei, 2005, China Gao Weihong, a young woman in a household of five: parents, an older brother and a younger brother; grows up in the 1970s during the Cultural Revolution; precocious, capricious, whimsical and flipant, and … Continue reading →

Not One Less, directed by Zhang Yimou, 2001, China Wei Minzhi, 13 year-old student in a rural village middle school in Bebei Province, called upon as a substitute teacher in Shuiquan Primary School where the regular and the only teacher … Continue reading →

Incense, directed by Ning Hao, 2002, China Buddhist Monkpious and living in a small village called Nan Xiao Zhai in Shaanxi Province where the villagers’s life revolves around live stock; feels important to do what he does in the village … Continue reading →

Happy Times, directed by Zhang Yimou, 2000, China Old Zhao 老赵, a factory worker in his late 50s forced to step down from his post during China’s reform and transformation from a state planned economy to a free market economy; … Continue reading →

Happy Together, directed by Wang Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 1999 Ho Po-winga British national living in Hong Kong; a gay man in his mid 30s; travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina with his boy friend; lives the precarious life of a male gigolo; … Continue reading →

“Getting Home” (luo ye gui gen: fallen leaves return to roots) directed by Zhang Yang, 2007, China Lao Zhao, Originally a peasant in his 50s from northern China, Lao Zhao came a long way to Shenzheng, a special and prosperous … Continue reading →