Director: Joan Chen
Rating: IIB
Duration: 100mins
Content:
In 1975, and the Great Cultural Revolution is in its final throes. Xiu Xiu, the daughter of a tailor, is send down to the countryside to serve a movement that has long since lost its prupose. She is among the last of seven and a half million Intellectual Youth to be exiled from family, classmates, and everything that is familiar. Lao Jin, xiu xiu's instructor is a simple Tibetan Society - two worlds from which he is equally outcast. Together Xiu Xiu and Lao Jin share a single, dilapidated army tent and a monadic existence governed only by the seasons and the flow of rivers and streams. Xiu Xiu, indifferent to Lao Jin and his impoverished lifestyle, is alone in an alien land longing for a youth cut short. Dreaming of home, Xiu Xiu seeks her way back through the promised favors of peddlers, soldiers and bureaucrats who periodically visit the tent on the grasslands. She trades her
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