Blue Sky Bones

Story

At the peak of the Cultural Revolution, driver Zhenquing, one of the party faithful, meets Yanping, a young music student. She, however, is far more interested in a fellow student and Western music than in him. Both are fateful attractions. She ends up married to Zhenquing. 30 years later, their son tries to get the money together for a cancer treatment for his father. The magical pictures of legendary cameraman Christopher Doyle create a playful portrait of different generations that is also an obituary for China’s lost generation condemned to silence by Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Director

Cui Jian (1961) is one of China's best-known rock musicians. In 1989, his songs became the hymns of the protest movement in Tian'anmen Square and he himself was named persona non grata. Later, he wrote film music and worked as an actor. Blue Sky Bones* is his second feature film.