Another View 2009 / Ren / China 2009
This raw, stylized debut offers a critical look at contemporary China. Emphasizing violence, drugs, sex, moral disenchantment, and social misery, the movie ranks as an exploitation film reflecting the precipitous changes happening in China today.
Violence, drugs, sex, moral disenchantment, and social misery – the independent film Life in Wandering is a typical contribution to exploitation cinema, or, more precisely, to the exploitative filmmaking tendencies of a country undergoing precipitous social, political, and economic changes. Similar to the Russian film Brother (Brat, 1997) by Alexey Balabanov, this Chinese debut pointedly reflects the contemporary situation of its country. It features the story of a naïve young man who arrives in the big city and is there forced by circumstances into engaging in illegal activities. Thanks to the use of a small digital camera, the filmmakers were able to set individual sequences in real environments without in any way limiting the chosen locations’ natural hustle and bustle. The sense of realism is further heightened by tremendous long shots. The film affords a sharply raw look at the flip side of China during the period of the Olympic Games.
90 min / Color, HD CAM
World premiere
Director Zhang Leitao
/ Screenplay Zhang Leitao
/ Dir. of Photography Zhang Leitao
/ Editor Zhang Leitao
/ Producer Liu Guohua
/ Production China Star Arts Television Corporation of China Garden Road
/ Cast Du Tingjun, Li Chunxiao, Guo Lin
/ Contact China Star Arts Television Corporation of China Garden Road
Zhang Leitao (b. 1988, China) first came to directing in 2007 with a series of short online movies entitled Migrant Workers Act (Mingongye fengkuang). Work as a director, cameraman, and screenwriter followed on a number of shorts for Henan TV. In January 2009, in the days leading up to the celebration of the Chinese new year, the young director shot his feature directorial debut Life in Wandering.
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