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Xiu Xiu – The sent down girl
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500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
Description
directed by Joan Chen
(Hong Kong/USA/Taiwan 1998) 99 min
Xiu Xiu is 15 in 1975 when she volunteers to be sent to the country in the sweep of patriotic fever that is sweeping the country. After a year she is sent on a special assignment: to learn horse herding in Tibet under the tutelage of an older man, Lopsang, who cannot function sexually because he had been castrated twenty years before. They share a dilapidated tent in a remote area of the grasslands of Tibet for what is supposed to be only a six month assignment. They learn to adjust to each other in spite of the fact that she is headstrong and a bit spoiled. He is good to her and a real affection develops between them. However, when the 6 months is up, she is abandoned by the government. The cultural revolution is breaking up and the project has been disbanded. A passing peddler then seduces her with promises of a travel visa, but he abandons her too and then there a series of men who visit her in her tent with empty promises.
Original version mandarin ; english subtitles
(Hong Kong/USA/Taiwan 1998) 99 min
Xiu Xiu is 15 in 1975 when she volunteers to be sent to the country in the sweep of patriotic fever that is sweeping the country. After a year she is sent on a special assignment: to learn horse herding in Tibet under the tutelage of an older man, Lopsang, who cannot function sexually because he had been castrated twenty years before. They share a dilapidated tent in a remote area of the grasslands of Tibet for what is supposed to be only a six month assignment. They learn to adjust to each other in spite of the fact that she is headstrong and a bit spoiled. He is good to her and a real affection develops between them. However, when the 6 months is up, she is abandoned by the government. The cultural revolution is breaking up and the project has been disbanded. A passing peddler then seduces her with promises of a travel visa, but he abandons her too and then there a series of men who visit her in her tent with empty promises.
Original version mandarin ; english subtitles