The last Chinese Vivian Co received an emotional response to the first global show at the Berlin Film Festival, where the audience laughs and crying during the show.
An intimate image of the two cousins’ work that moves in personal ambition and family obligations against the background of the rapid social transformation of China, and the drama, which is in the main competition of the festival, weaves the subjects of independence, changes generations, and the cost of following the dreams of the individual.
The movie “Leo Hokone”, which erupted in “One Second” for Zhang Yimou and won the Best New Expatriate Award at Asian Film Awards, along with Wen Qi, who previously collaborated with QU on “Angels Wear White”. They gathered more than the promising talents of China, where Wayne won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supportive Actress at the age of fourteen for “The Bold, The Frib, and the Beautiful”.
The movie “Girls on Wire”, which was shown against the world of cinema, explores the complex relationship between the children of the one generation of China. “When you do not have brothers, the closest companion will be cousin,” explains QU. “During my search for this generation, the first generation of business owners in China in the 1980s and 1990s, I really noticed these children. When their parents were very busy so that they did not carefully take care of them, the only person they can rely on is their cousin.”
The story follows Fang De, who leaves home to make a trick to remove family debts, and her cousin Tian Tian, who is still behind dealing with her father’s addiction before forcing him to flee local mobs. “It is a complex relationship,” says QU. “They depend on each other, but at the same time, it makes the family situation difficult for them to stick to each other all the time. I think every woman is an individual, as I think she is warriors, and their fighters, each of them exerts their best to fight for freedom, and struggle for Independence, and they are fighting for the type of dream they want to live in. ” They were reunited with the largest studio of films in China, looking for freedom and survival, facing an exciting confrontation with personal and criminal threats.
QU’s approach to filming the amazing work sequence gave priority to originality on the scene. The difficult water sequence takes two full nights of shooting, as Wen performed many exciting works. “We did not know if the actors could do all these movements,” he remembered. “But it was great. She has already done most of the amazing things. She kept taking them for a long time … so that the audience could see that she is doing everything.”
“Most of the time we ignore them. Koi says of the amazing performance artists, explaining her approach to photographing their work often often.” I don’t want the specified pieces. I do not want the formulas. I want to hear the friction of the wires. I want to feel the tightness of the jacket. I want to feel the cold of water. “
The director, who made history the first director to win the Best Director of the Golden Horse Awards and the GUILD Awards, the Chinese director, continues to examine the urgent social issues that were distinguished by her previous works “Trap Street” and “Angels Wear White”, “Both of them were first offered in Venice. : “I think I tell this era, from the nineties so far, very important, because many Answers, many of the questions we have now for what we are, and where we stand, we may find answers in the past. No other country has changed dramatically in such a short time, but China did. “
The premiere of the movie in Berlin is of special importance for QU, which produced the 2014 Dio Yinan’s golden winner entitled “Black Coal, Thin Ice”. “This means that we have the opportunity to show the world that the young generation of Chinese actors, especially these young people, are very talented, and they really need to see it,” she says. “I really hope they will have international jobs for themselves.”
At the first show in Berlin, the film received a crowded house and an emotional response from the fans. “I was able to hear people laughing and crying during the examination,” says QU. The film’s academic balance was organized between humor and codes carefully. “I left emotions flowing from the cousin to the other, and moved from the present to the past and back again,” she noticed that she wanted to create an organic rhythm between memory and reality.
It seems that the date of the film’s release in China in China, which coincides with the Women’s International Women’s Day, is especially suitable given its focus on female views. “The fans of young women at the present time in China really want to see films about women,” said QU, noting that the last lunar family films were mostly led by males. “They want to contact other women’s characters. They want to find solutions to their own problems.”
While admitting that “the space of independent cinema is not huge,” QU sees the encouragement of signs of receiving the audience. “More and more people demand good quality movies. They want to see serious and interesting films and new new movies.
The director is already developing many new projects that explore different periods in Chinese history, and continue their interest in creating contemporary answers through historical examination.
The movie “Girls on Wire” is produced by L’Avventura Films and JQ Spring Pictures, with world sales in movies processing. After the premiere in Berlin and its Chinese release, the film is expected to continue at its international festival.
