Xiu xiu the sent down girl movie synopsis and info. Precocious wen xiu 16yearold lu lu, playfully called xiu xiu by her friends, finds herself one of millions of chinese teenagers sent to the hinterlands to receive specialized training during. Cecile shah tsuei, ruby yang, waichung chan, geling yan. Then she is selected to be sent down to a remote rural area, where as a city girl she can have her revolutionary values renewed by living with the proletariat. The sent down girl uses one persons grueling ordeal to. Still, its clear chen has a natural filmmakers eye for composition, pacing, and tone, gracefully asserting her own style over a melodrama that draws on. The sentdown girl cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Definitely not a frivolous project by a dilettante actress, joan chens directorial debut xiu xiu. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing xiu xiu. The sentdown girl you are looking for disturbing, emotional and sincere movies about with prostitute, revolution, innocence lost, coming of age, teenage life, youth and politics themes of drama genre shot in hong kong or usa. The sent down girl, actress joan chen twin peaks joins the socalled fifth generation chinese filmmakers, a movement of courageous, politically committed directors responsible for some of the richest cinema of the last decade. The sent down girl uses one persons grueling ordeal to probe a dark chapter in.
It is a certainly a condemnationof chinese governments cultural youth revolution policy that took teenagersaway from their homes in the 1960s and 70s and assigned them to practicalservitude in remote regions of the country. Xiu xiu, a 15yearold girl living in the city of chengdu, moves out to study horses in the countryside with a nomadic tibetan. Based on gelings 1981 short story celestial bath, the film is set in the 1970s in the during the cultural revolutions down to the countryside movement in peoples republic of china. Secret 2007 film by jay chou full movie with english subtitle 720p hd. Achamber yarn of lost innocence during the cultural revolution that packs a surprising punch under its naive, almost abstract telling, xiu xiu. The sent down girl, a tragic story spun out of chinas cultural. The sent down girl turns pretty nasty in the third act. New hallmark movies 2020 hallmark romance movies full length 2020 duration. Yet the film is more than a tale about the misguided totalitarian state and its pervasive influence on everyones lives. The sent down girl 1999 joan chen on allmovie actress joan chen makes her directorial debut.
So youre telling me that the movie that gave jamie stewarts band its name is incredibly depressing. Theres nudity, talk of castration, that awful rape, and a couple other rather onesided sex scenes. The sentdown girl starring lu lu in this drama on directv. Young teen girl xiu xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 sending young people to there was a part of cultural revolution in china. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. The title of her new movie, xiu xiu the sent down girl, is a clumsy mouthful, but its nicely photographed, well directed and has two delicate lead performances from lu lu and lopsang. A superb first outing from debuting director joan chen, xiu xiu. The movie tells the tale of a young girl sent to rural china for education, as were millions of people during the. Tian yu is a 1998 chinese drama film directed by joan chen in her directorial debut, who cowrote the screenplay with geling yan. Although joan chens directorial debut xiu xiu the sent down girl is an emotional, visually stunning, and powerful movie, there is a nagging feeling of sensationalism and heavyhanded politics that pulls it down. The anticommunist worldview of the movie is undercut by problems in character motivation and character credibility, as well as some graphic sexual.
Xiu xiu is both a somber melodrama and a strident critique of mao and the cultural revolution. This interesting movie talks about complicated relationships among people in fastchanging society. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. Young teen girl xiu xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975. The sent down girl 1998 gratis cinemaxxi film bagus bioskop online movie sub indo ilk21 indoxxi. She is told that after six months, she will return to take charge of her allgirl cavalry unit. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Director joan chen has fashioned a lovely, slowmoving film, xiu xiu the sent down girl about the abuses of the chinese cultural revolution seen through the eyes of one girl, xiu xiu. Wen xiu the title is her nickname lives in the provincial city of chengdu, goes to school, has a boyfriend, wears blouses sewn by her father, a tailor. Rather than an ensemble city film like prior anticultural revolution works, xiu xius virtually twocharacter, rural story presents. Young teen girl xiu xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the sichuan steppes for.
In a time of movies about sex and silly teenagers, here is a film that arrives with a jolt of hard reality, about a 15yearold chinese girl who was. During the cultural revolution in china, mao zadongs regime sends countless adolescents, including a bright young girl named xiu xiu lu lu, to rural lands in order to participate in various kinds of physical labor. Actress joan chen makes her directorial debut with this bleak tale, adapted from. The sent down girl may seem on thesurface like a purely political document. Xiu xiu is a young woman sent to the tibetan steppe for reeducation, but barred from going returning to her.
The sent down girl a chinese victim of the 60s revolution. The title of her new movie, xiu xiu the sent down girl, is a clumsy mouthful, but its nicely photographed, well directed and has two delicate lead performances. Xiu xiu pronounced showshow naively volunteers for maos youth reeducation program. The sent down girl brutally but lyrically documents what happens when chinese communist officials sexually abuse a teenage girl whos forced to work with a kindly tibetan herder of horses. The movie tells the tale of a young girl sent to rural china for education, as were millions of people during the cultural revolution, and is based on a short story by geling yan called celestial bath. Young teen girl, xiu xiu, is sent away to a remote corner of the sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 sending young people to. The sentdown girl 1998 is a beautifully mounted and emotionally harsh indictment of the chinese cultural revolutions reeducation program for urban children. Tian yu is a 1998 chinese drama film directed by joan chen in her directorial debut, who cowrote the. Yet, thats precisely the fate thats befallen the waiflike xiu xiu lu lu in first time director joan chens moving and melancholy xiu xiu. The first socialrealist film in the history of chinese cinema. A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a tibetan saddle tramp lao jin to learn horse herding. The sent down girl 1998 bluray drama young teen girl xiu xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 sending young people to there was a part of cultur.
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