This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

Description

Wang Guangli's Maiden Work is a rare and innovative glimpse into the Chinese underground. The romance of Xue (Snow) and her lover Yu (Rain) shatters over a portrait of Yu painted by the artist, Jinian. When Jinian injures his eye in a bar fight, his mind (and the film) becomes a swirl of fragments – the women’s relationship, old Chinese war movies, Maoist discos – as a haunting past clash and meld. Jinian feels compelled to make a movie about the women and himself, and we take part in his attempt to get the film made, despite plenty of obstacles, real and imagined. Lush and abstract, Maiden Work, ranks with any of the best art films from Europe, without the pretension. Shockingly mature, not just in the handling of it’s subject, but for its incredibly gorgeous cinematography.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

Director

Orr., Joe

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