Film Information
Year: 2022
Duration: 110'
Language: VOSE
Genre: Drama
Synopsis
Based on the autobiographical novel “Dream”, written by Zhang Xiu Zhen, the protagonist of this film is a factory worker, who in her free time dedicates herself to her family and tries to write as much as she can. The action takes place during the Cultural Revolution, between the 60s and early 80s of the 20th century. Curiously, in her personal and family life, she is the object of daily abuse by her partner whom she supports and with whom she has already had more children than they could have. However, she ends up overcoming these circumstances thanks to the writing, which becomes her liberation.
Director
After graduating from university, Wang Chao worked for five years in the steel industry, although he was always interested in films and literature. In 1991, joined the Beijing Film Academy where he graduated in 1994 and began working as a film critic. This is how he met Chen Kaige after filming Tierra Amarilla, and he hired him as assistant director between 1995 and 1998 for the filming of Adiós a mi concubina and El Emperador y el Asesino. During this time, he wrote several short stories, which inspired scripts for a few films. With Orphan of Anyang, a film he shot without authorisation, he made his directorial debut. This film was selected in 2001, to participate in the Directors’ Fortnight Section of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2004, he made his second film Day and Night and with Luxury Car in 2006 he completed the trilogy about China that he had been working on for more than five years. His fourth and fifth films, Memory of Love (2009) and Fantasy (2014), which was presented in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Film Festival that same year, despite its discretion, shows narrative maturity on its director’s part. Looking for Rohmer (2018), shows the interest of Wang Chao for the critic and filmmaker Eric Rohmer and the Nouvelle Vague, up to the point of making a film about him, although not necessarily biographic. A Woman (2022), until now his latest film was shown in the last edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN with great public success, after its screening in San Sebastian, where it was nominated for the Golden Shell.
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