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3. März 1998 · By Derek Elley. (Mandarin dialogue) Achamber yarn of lost innocence during the Cultural Revolution that packs a surprising punch under its naive, almost abstract telling, “Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down ...
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew.
upon which Xiu Xiu is based and scripted the film with Chen, belonged to Chen's generation. For both Yan and Chen, the experience of being "sent down" by the Com-munist government was a prevalent threat in their youth. Both female artists are no stranger to "The System": its cold calculation of human life, its sorting of human
5. Aug. 2019 · The beautiful camera shots of the landscape and the poetry of the girl’s loss of innocence were undermined to a certain degree by how this allegory finally unfolded. Xiu Xiu’s story is sad one, but one wonders if it was really so overwhelming as it is portrayed here. Nevertheless, this was a substantial film. REVIEWED ON 5/3/2000 GRADE: B.
Synopsis. Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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As its foundation, Xiu Xiu has the bedrock of two superbly-rendered, multidimensional characters. When the film opens, Wen Xui is an artless, optimistic young girl who faces the future with strength and courage. She is shy and sexually inexperienced, and refuses to undress in a situation where Lao Jin might catch her naked.
