Director: Jiang Wen
Script.: Shu Ping, Gui Shixing,
Jiang Wen, inspired by the novella Velvet by Ye Mi
Cinema.: Zhao Fei, Mark Ping-Bin Lee, Yang Tsao
Edit: Xu Jianshu, Zhang Yifan
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Cast.: Joan Chen, Zhou Yun, Jaycee Chan, Anthony Wong, Jiang Wen, Kong Wei
Production: Beijing Buyilehu Films
Distribution:
Pretty Pictures
33, rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine
75011 Paris
Phone: +33(0)1 43 14 10 00
[email protected]
Year: 2007
35 mm, Color, 115 min, Mandarin Chinese with French subtitles
In southern China during spring 1976, a young widow and her son live a happy life in a small remote village. The mother starts to behave in a strange way after losing a pair of embroidered bootees. In eastern China during summer 1976, teachers Liang and Tang are good friends. Sudden events change the apparent calm prevailing on the university campus. In southern China during autumn 1976, Tang sent to a village for rehabilitation finds his wife with Tang, the son of the widow. In western China during winter 1958, two figures riding white camels appear in the Gobi desert. One of them must find her fiancé and the other one who is pregnant must collect her dead husband’s belongings.
“The Sun Also Rises” is a succession of surrealistic tales in four tableaux, as well as an invitation to travel through time and China, and a symphony of colors, textures and sounds.
“The Sun Also Rises” is a succession of surrealistic tales in four tableaux, as well as an invitation to travel through time and China, and a symphony of colors, textures and sounds.
