Panorama 2008 du cinéma chinois de Paris | Perspective

Assembly (2007) by FENG Xiaogang

Wednesday, December 3 - 20:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder with the exceptional presence of the director Feng Xiaogang, the actor ZHANG Hanyu and Ms TANG Yan, main actress of the movie *
Thursday, December 4 - 18:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Saturday, December 6 - 20:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Monday, December 8 - 18:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder

In 1948, during the Chinese civil war The Huaihai Campaign halted for winter. Captain Guzidi, company commander of the Ninth National People's Army, lead an infantry unit composed of forty-six men on a mission to defend the south bank of the river wen. His orders are clear: fight until the final signal. The signal does not come. The company is fully destroyed except the captain saved by taking a uniform enemy. After the war, the sacrifice of his companions is not recognised. His last fight, the longest and most difficult will be to restore their memory and honour...

Getting Home (2006) de ZHANG Yang

Thursday, December 4 - 22:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Saturday, December 6 - 16:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Tuesday, December 9 - 20:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder

Filmed with great sense of humor, Getting Home is based on a true story about two construction workers. Zhao worked as a laborer in the new city of Shenzhen. His close friend Lao Wang dies. Just before he dies Zhao promises to bury him, in the land of his ancestors. To keep his promise, Zhao carries his friend's dead body across china for the burial.

Lucky Dog (2007) de ZHANG Meng

Thursday, December 4 - 20:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the actor *
Sunday, December 7 - 22:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the actor *
Monday, December 8 - 22:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder

In a town in north-east China, FAN Wei interprets WANG Kangmei, a recently retired railroad worker with talent and humor. For him, life is not easy: his wife is in a hospital, his daughter wants to divorce and his son is idle. His brother cannot treat their elderly father, and WANG's pension is too meager to pay the medical expenses. On a market day, WANG is predicted a future by a computer programm. According to the Chinese proverb the fact of having big ears means good luck... The machine predicts a bright future... Then, he goes to look for a job to make his life easier... He tries with courage and tenacity to be hired as a singer, a shoeshiner and many other small jobs... This is an opportunity for Zhang Meng to draw a lucid portrait of ordinary people with a lot of humor and affection.

Knitting (2008) de YIN Lichuan

Wednesday, December 3 - 18:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Saturday, December 6 - 18:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Sunday, December 7 - 18:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Tuesday, December 9 - 22:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder

LI Daping and her boyfriend CHEN Jin live isolated in the outskirts of a Chinese megapolis in southern China. Hard living conditions created a strong bond between them. When the beautiful Zhang Haili (Yan Bingyan) materializes out of CHEN's dubious past, CHEN is pushed into a series of shady deals. Daping ends up shoved into a corner – still in love with CHEN, pregnant and silently knitting.

Teeth of Love (2005) de Zhuang Yuxin

Wednesday, December 3 - 16:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Sunday, December 7 - 16:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Monday, December 8 - 20:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder

IAN 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.

The Road (2006) de ZHANG Jiarui

Friday, December 5 - 22:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the actor *
Sunday, December 7 - 20:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the actor *
Monday, December 8 - 16:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder

The Road tells the story of a young and a little naive Lady over forty years. The character is played by the wonderful Zhang Jingchu, discovered in Berlin, in Gu Changwei's Peacock, (Silver Bear 2005). Ticket-puncher on the Xiangyang road, faithful in collective longing, she will go through the evolution of the century, with a bus, as the symbol of the sands of time.

Dream Weaver (2008) de Gu Jun

Wednesday, December 3 - 22:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Thursday, December 4 - 16:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Friday, December 5 - 14:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Saturday, December 6 - 22:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder
Tuesday, December 9 - 14:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder

Officially selected to represent China at the Academy Awards 2099, Dream Weaver is a documentary that presents remarkable achievements in five interweaved stories of five different groups of ordinary people during the preparation for the Olympic Games in Beijing. This is a Chinese vision of this historic event. For seven years, from July 2001 to August 2006, the camera of documentary filmmaker GU Jun followed fourteen different stories, large and small, all linked with the Olympic deadline.

The Red Awn (2007) de CAI Shangjun

Friday, December 5 - 18:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the director *
Saturday, December 6 - 14:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the director *
Tuesday, December 9 - 18:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the director *

A long time ago, the father went to look for work in the city, leaving his wife and son at home. The mother dies, the father doesn't come back, so the son grows up, alone. One day, the father reappears suddenly at the front door. He comes back to marry a woman. From there will begin a tragic conflict between the father and the son. The son wants to make it worse, the father tries to resolve it, confined between the guilt of not having been there when he was needed and the necessity of being respected as a father. They leave together on the roads to work on the fields on a red Combine...

Urtin Duu (2007) de Hasichaolu

Wednesday, December 3 - 13h50 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the director *
Sunday, December 7 - 14:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder in presence of the director *
Monday, December 8 - 14:00 - Cinéma Le Max Linder