Story
A Chinese debut film full of animistic power: a summer of memories brought to life in playful melancholy. After graduating, Yezi spends some time with her grandmother, who is increasingly losing her memory since the death of her husband. In a sort of magical realism, the lights and objects in her flat acquire a life of their own, begin to dance and show family memories. Stories about how Yezi’s parents met, an encounter with a bear and fragments from the life of the grandparents take shape and surround the protagonist. In the face of forgetting, time begins to lose its significance.
Director
NIU XIAOYU studied at the Beijing Film Academy. Here, she did a BA in Animation and an MA in Experimental Film. Virgin Blue was shown at Locarno in the Cineasti del presente competition.Film Talk
Info
Bu yao zai jian a, Yu hua tang
Fiction Feature
Chinese
Asiascope | FF2021
People's Republic of China
2021
100 min
OV with English subtitles
Xiaoyu Niu
Xiaoyu Niu
Zi Ye, Shengzhi Zheng
Zijian Wang, Wenhui Zhu
Xu Deng
Yang Zhang
Shuzhen Hu
Rubey Hu
Yue Yuan
Anqi Chen, Jiacheng Li
Rediance Films
Yu Tang Films (Anhui) Blackfin Production
Jing Xu, Rediance Films: jing@rediancefilms.com
Tags
AgeingMemoriesExperimentalFamily and RelationshipsWomenArt and EssayMusicMotherFemale DirectorsFather