Perspective - Chinese Cinema Today and Tomorrow
Teeth of Love
(Aiqing de yachi) by Zhuang Yuxin
First Film
China / Comedy / 2005 / 111'
Starring: Yan Bingyan, Li Hongtao, Li Naiwen, Chi Jia, He Xuesong, Wu Jiaojiao, Lin Jie
Zhuang Yuxin
Zhuang Yuxin spent ten years making Teeth of Love. Professor at the Beijing Film Academy, he actively worked as a TV director. He portrays a touching woman caught up as much by her life as by her emotions.
YAN Bingyan
Yan Bingyan, the lead actress who also plays the main part in Knitting, is exceptionally good. She has won the Best Actress Award at the 16th Golden Rooster, the most prestigious competition film in China.
Synopsis
QIAN Yehong lives in Beijing and follows the dramatic changes in China from 1977 to 1987. In ten years, she experienced different roles: a female gangster in the days of social turmoil, a student at the school of medicine, an unlucky female laborer, and an unhappy wife. However, what she has really experienced at the bottom of her heart is not the social changes, but the tangling relationships with love, pain and memories of the past. After ten years being with three different men, she suddenly realizes that pain is a shortcut to love.