Waiting Alone

Aka: Du zi deng dai
Director: Dayyan Eng
Release date: September 8, 2005
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) (2 different sets. One formal, One slang)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Starring:
Yu Xia………………….Chen Wen
Bingbing Li…………….Liu Rong
Beibi Gong…………….Li Jing
Qi Gao…………………Haitao
Chao Wu………………San

Synopsis:
Set in Beijing, the film is a window into modern Chinese youth culture. Waiting Alone is a coming-of-age tale which tells the first-person-narrative story of Wen (Xia Yu), an antique shop co-owner and an aspiring author who feels that he's met the perfect girl (Li Bingbing). But no matter how close he and the girl become, he just doesn't understand why she won't fall for him. Aided by his best friends and the one girl he completely trusts (Gong Beibi), he tries different ways to woo her, playing along within the “rules of the game”... (Asianmediawiki)

Review:
Baby Gong and Bingbing Li.

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Curiosities:
First film by a foreign director (Dayyan Eng) to be nominated for a "Best Picture" at the Chinese academy awards (2005)
Awards:
Golden Rooster Awards:
Best Actress: Bingbing Li
Best Art Direction: Thomas Chong
Best Film: For the first time a foreign director's Chinese film entered this national competition.

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