Aka: Tian yu / Heaven Bath
Director: Joan Chen
Release date: February 1998
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Mature 18+
Starring:
Xiaolu Li (as Lu Lu)
Lopsang
Zheng Qian
Jie Gao
Qianqian Li
Yue Lü
Synopsis:
It's 1975 and the Great Cultural Revolution is in its final throes. Xiu Xiu, the daughter of a tailor, is "sent down" to the countryside to serve a movement that has long since lost its purpose. She is among the last of seven and a half million "Intellectual Youth" to be exiled from family, classmates, and everything that is familiar. Lao Jin, Xiu Xiu's "instructor", is a simple Tibetan herder, closer to the horses he keeps than either Chinese or Tibetan society - two worlds from which he is equally outcast.
Together Xiu Xiu and Lao Jin share a single, dilapidated army tent and a nomadic existence governed only by the seasons and the flow of rivers and streams. Xiu Xiu, indifferent to Lao Jin and his impoverished lifestyle, is alone in an alien land longing for a youth cut short. Dreaming of home, Xiu Xiu seeks her way back through the promised favors of peddlers, soldiers, and bureaucrats who periodically visit the tent on the grasslands. She trades her sexuality in a desperate search for the necessary connections to return home. In a moral compromise that only deepens her exile from her youth, Xiu Xiu's name becomes synonymous with sexual pleasure. (Credit: avistaz)
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Curiosities:
Although the U.S. distributor claimed the film was banned in China for sexual and political content, the script was actually approved by the Chinese government. The film was only banned after the filmmakers decided not to wait for permits before shooting in Tibet (such permits are required for a film to receive official approval).
Awards
Golden Horse Awards 1998: Best Director (Joan Chen); Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium; Best Actress (Lu Lu); Best Actor (LupSang)
Berlin International Film Festival 1998: nominated for the Golden Bear
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 1998: won the Jury Award
Mons International Festival of Love Films 1999: won the Grand Prize
National Board of Review 1999: won the International Freedom Award
Independent Spirit Awards 2000: nominated for Best First Feature Over $500,000 (John Chen, shared with co-producer Alice Chan Wai-Chung)
Paris Film Festival 1999: Special Jury Prize; Best Actress (Lu Lu)
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