Belgium director Olivier Meys chooses a tale of social realism for his feature debut “Bitter Flowers”, 9 years after the documentary “A Disappearance Foretold” and the short film “Première nuit à Beijing”. Co-written with Maarten Loix, “Bitter Flowers” is an independent Belgium-Switzerland-France-China co-production exposing the very real phenomenon – which has been increasing exponentially since the early 2000s – of Chinese women being lured into fake promises of easy earning in European countries.
“Bitter Flowers” is screening at CineCina iFest
The story is narrated from the perspective of a mid-thirty woman and starts in Yeling, in the cold province of Dongbei, North East China. Lina (Qi Xi) and her little family, an affectionate husband and a son, live modestly in an urban apartment. Their life is not unpleasant, but it could be better; more money would allow them to start a little business and provide a better future for their son. This mirage...
“Bitter Flowers” is screening at CineCina iFest
The story is narrated from the perspective of a mid-thirty woman and starts in Yeling, in the cold province of Dongbei, North East China. Lina (Qi Xi) and her little family, an affectionate husband and a son, live modestly in an urban apartment. Their life is not unpleasant, but it could be better; more money would allow them to start a little business and provide a better future for their son. This mirage...
- 7/28/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Belgium director Olivier Meys chooses a tale of social realism for his feature debut “Bitter Flowers”, 9 years after the documentary “A Disappearance Foretold” and the short film “Première nuit à Beijing”. Co-written with Maarten Loix, “Bitter Flowers” is an independent Belgium-Switzerland-France-China co-production exposing the very real phenomenon – which has been increasing exponentially since the early 2000s – of Chinese women being lured into fake promises of easy earning in European countries.
“Bitter Flowers” is screening at CineCina iFest
The story is narrated from the perspective of a mid-thirty woman and starts in Yeling, in the cold province of Dongbei, North East China. Lina (Qi Xi) and her little family, an affectionate husband and a son, live modestly in an urban apartment. Their life is not unpleasant, but it could be better; more money would allow them to start a little business and provide a better future for their son. This mirage...
“Bitter Flowers” is screening at CineCina iFest
The story is narrated from the perspective of a mid-thirty woman and starts in Yeling, in the cold province of Dongbei, North East China. Lina (Qi Xi) and her little family, an affectionate husband and a son, live modestly in an urban apartment. Their life is not unpleasant, but it could be better; more money would allow them to start a little business and provide a better future for their son. This mirage...
- 7/28/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
CineCina teams with Smart Cinema USA for the first CineCina iFest available to the public from now through August 31. Available for viewing exclusively on mobile devices via The SmartCinema USA app. Highlighted by Oliver Mays’ drama Bitter Flowers, Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play, and a mini retrospective of director Midi Z’s work, the CineCina iFest, is the organization’s latest foray into exploring new exhibition methods following the Covid-19 pandemic’s disruption of audiences attending screening events and viewing films in theaters.
CineCina, which has quickly made a name for itself in New York championing Chinese and world cinema, recently concluded its first Online Film Festival, and has received notice for projecting iconic film scenes set in New York City on buildings in Manhattan to celebrate the gradual reopening of the state. CineCina has steadfastly continued its mission to celebrate film and promote filmmaking in the city during...
CineCina, which has quickly made a name for itself in New York championing Chinese and world cinema, recently concluded its first Online Film Festival, and has received notice for projecting iconic film scenes set in New York City on buildings in Manhattan to celebrate the gradual reopening of the state. CineCina has steadfastly continued its mission to celebrate film and promote filmmaking in the city during...
- 7/16/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Screen investigates which films from around the world could launch on the Croisette, including on opening night.
With just over a month to go before the line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival is unveiled in Paris, Croisette predictions and wish lists are hitting the web thick and fast.
Screen’s network of correspondents and contributors around the world have been putting out feelers to get a sense of what might or might not make it to the Palais du Cinéma or one of the parallel sections.
Just like the Oscars, this year’s festival is likely to unfold amid a politically-charged atmosphere. Beyond Trump and the rise of populism across the globe, France will be digesting the result of its own presidential election on May 7. Against this background, the festival will be feting its 70th edition.
Below, Screen reveals which titles might - and might not - be in the running for a place at the...
With just over a month to go before the line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival is unveiled in Paris, Croisette predictions and wish lists are hitting the web thick and fast.
Screen’s network of correspondents and contributors around the world have been putting out feelers to get a sense of what might or might not make it to the Palais du Cinéma or one of the parallel sections.
Just like the Oscars, this year’s festival is likely to unfold amid a politically-charged atmosphere. Beyond Trump and the rise of populism across the globe, France will be digesting the result of its own presidential election on May 7. Against this background, the festival will be feting its 70th edition.
Below, Screen reveals which titles might - and might not - be in the running for a place at the...
- 3/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
Oddsac, London, Manchester & Leeds
How to follow up one of the best albums of last year? Rather than release another cryptically titled psychedelic odyssey, New York uber-hipsters Animal Collective have gone even further out and made a film. Well, actually it's a "visual album", made with long-time artist collaborator Danny Perez. Four years in the making, featuring completely new music, Oddsac is a narrative-free, head-spinning vortex of abstract kaleidoscopic trippiness that, as one fan puts it, "makes Matthew Barney look like Matthew McConaughey". Confused? Perez and the band will be on hand to explain themselves.
Ica, SE1, Thu; Mint Lounge, Manchester, Fri; Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 15 May, oddsac.com
One Night In Turin, Nationwide
The summer blockbuster season is set to be called off for a few weeks this June while the World Cup hogs the nation's viewing attention instead. But to get us in the mood, and keep us in the cinema,...
How to follow up one of the best albums of last year? Rather than release another cryptically titled psychedelic odyssey, New York uber-hipsters Animal Collective have gone even further out and made a film. Well, actually it's a "visual album", made with long-time artist collaborator Danny Perez. Four years in the making, featuring completely new music, Oddsac is a narrative-free, head-spinning vortex of abstract kaleidoscopic trippiness that, as one fan puts it, "makes Matthew Barney look like Matthew McConaughey". Confused? Perez and the band will be on hand to explain themselves.
Ica, SE1, Thu; Mint Lounge, Manchester, Fri; Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 15 May, oddsac.com
One Night In Turin, Nationwide
The summer blockbuster season is set to be called off for a few weeks this June while the World Cup hogs the nation's viewing attention instead. But to get us in the mood, and keep us in the cinema,...
- 5/7/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Yes, we’ve been looking forward to this one rather a lot, thanks in no small part to the acting one-two punch of Nicolai Cleve Broche and Kristoffer Joner - two of the very best the region has to offer - in the leads. Set in the end of the hippie era and based on a cult novel The Last Joint Venture casts Broche and Joner as a pair of stoner pot dealers swept up in the wave of harder drugs that burst on to the scene in the seventies. Here’s the synopsis:
“Paranoid is when you think someone’s following you, but if you know it, that’s different, right?” says Carl in The Last Joint Venture. The final strains of the hippie decade are fading, and the 80s are looming ahead. Carl (Kristoffer Joner) and Robert (Nicolai Cleve Broch) are two wasters who live in harmony with the world,...
“Paranoid is when you think someone’s following you, but if you know it, that’s different, right?” says Carl in The Last Joint Venture. The final strains of the hippie decade are fading, and the 80s are looming ahead. Carl (Kristoffer Joner) and Robert (Nicolai Cleve Broch) are two wasters who live in harmony with the world,...
- 7/21/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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