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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: ARIZTICAL ENTERTAINMENT INC
EAN: 0631008060095
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Ariztical Entertainment
Manufacturer: Ariztical Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ariztical Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 84638
Studio: Ariztical Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Set in the city that was once considered the Paris of the East we see that here everyone has their price.System Requirements:Running Time: 86 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 631008060095 Manufacturer No: CQC600
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Rating: - Cutting edge feature from China
As in his ground-breaking Shanghai Panic, Andrew Cheng here starts from the perception that Shanghai has lost whatever social and moral restraints it ever chafed under. This time he focuses on older (but not necessarily more mature) characters and uses a more conventional one-thing-leads-to-another structure to explore their variously damaged lives. First there's the cocky young man who fancies his chances as a gigolo but quickly learns what it means to work as a whore. Then there's the faded would-be diva who presents for a local cable channel and earns extra money on the side by `restoring' the odd hymen. Next there's her estranged husband, the gay man who married her to help her get back to the city after the Cultural Revolution but left her as soon as she'd borne their son. And finally there's the boy himself, the withdrawn, disturbed son of this marriage of convenience. Cheng smartly divides the film between documentary-style scenes and stylised, theatrical tableaux, linking the two with digitally manipulated images of the city. The ensemble, which shades from black comedy into a delicate melancholy, adds up to a persuasive anatomy of China's new emotional and sexual economy. Screened in competition at the 2003 Rotterdam Film Festival, where it was awarded the Fipresci Prize.
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