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Le protégé de Mme Qing

Men and Women

(Nan nan nu nu)

by Liu Bingjian

China

 

Le protégé de Mme Qing

Director: Liu Bingjian

Script: Cui Zen, Liu Bingjian

Cinematographer: Jin Liang, Xu Jun

Editor: Ah Yi

Settings: Han Xiao

Sound: Yang Jiang

Cast: Choi Min-shik, Cécilia Cheung, Sohn Byung-ho, Gong Hyung-jin

Production: Tube Pictures, Ahn Sang-hoon

Distribution:
Cara M.
38 rue des Martyrs
75009 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.55.31.27.47
Fax: 0033 1.55.31.27.26

Year: 1999

35 mm, Colour, 90 min
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles

Winter 1999. Xiao Bo, a reserved young man, comes to Beijing in search of work. Qing Jie, the manager of a fashion shop, employs him and gives him a room to stay. She introduces him to her best friend, but Bo obviously feels nothing for her, nor for any woman. He prefers the company of Chong Chong who publishes a magazine of graffiti and maxims of public toilets. Mrs Qing leaves her lover, a sailor, for the young woman she had kept for Xioa Bao. Bo is above all a young man from the countryside who tries to merge in the city. He learns how to chose the life he wants and naturally tries to find his own place in society.

Partly shot illegally, this film is about homosexuality "which is still a taboo in China, but it is also a film about love in the broad sense of the word ", as Liu Bingjian said.

To be born a male or female homosexual in China today.

 

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