Movies: Song Chuan

A free and wild young woman has to come back from the big city to her village in the mountains....

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Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in for the star....

Dandan is a poet, disillusioned and passing time working as a teacher in a remote village. He searches for love and meaning in his life, but this seems to drift away from him like the smoke from his endless chain of cigarettes....

Song Chuan’s first feature captures the dreams and desires, disappointments and regrets, of a life not fully lived via the title character. In a rural Chinese village, a young woman who is the local doctor’s mistress struggles against her family, gov...