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Format: DVD
Apr 2006
Rated PG
Recording Mode: (unknown)
100 min.
Color
UPC: 043396141124 |
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Details
Movie Description
A woman fights tradition, bureaucracy and provincialism in order to seek justice for her wronged husband in this satirical look at modern China. Winner of Best Film & Best Actresss 1992 Venice Film Festival.
Synopsis
The wife of a chili farmer becomes involved in a one-woman crusade against the Chinese bureaucracy in Zhang Yimou's fable of contemporary China. When farmer Wan Qinglai gets into a violent argument with village head Wang Shantang and is hospitalized with groin injuries, his hugely pregnant wife Qiuju demands justice. Humiliated by Wang Shantang, Qiuju rejects his cash compensation and travels instead to the provincial capital. There the indomitable peasant woman undertakes the daunting task of extracting a simple apology from the labyrinthine bureaucracy.
Industry Reviews
"...[Gong Li] emerges as a figure of astonishing fortitude....[THE STORY OF QIU JU] is exceptionally down-to-earth..."
Maslin
"...The movie's style and narrative seem inspired by postwar Italian neorealism....Watching the film, we find the humor for ourselves..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (05/28/1993)
"The story was filmed between RAISE THE RED LANTERN and TO LIVE during a fruitful collaboration between Gong and director Zhang Yimou."
USA Today - Mike Clark
Quotations
"If we can't fix your plumbing, we're stuck with the single-child policy for good." -- Wan Qiuju (Gong Li) to Wan Qinglai (Liu Peiqi)
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