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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Movie Title: 
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Picture: 

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Year of Production: 
1998
Genre: 
Drama
Director: 
Joan Chen
Internet Movie Database: 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115005/
Video Information: 
Name: Xiu Xiu The Sent Down Girl-RFLY.avi | Size: 1493Mb | Play duration: 01:39:39 | FourCC: xvid/XVID | Resolution: 720 x 544 | Display aspect ratio: 45:34 = 1.323529 (~4:3) | Framerate: 23.976023 fps | Audio: mp3 128kBps VBR Mandarin | Soft subtitles: English
Movie Description: 
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 the country side was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later she's ent even further to the more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding. There Xiu Xiu falls in love with a man who promises to talk to an official and get her back home. He brings an apple which Xiu Xiu treasures and he takes... Xiu Xiu is a beautifully made movie in which Joan Chen combines sumptuous visual imagery, a beautiful, delicate musical score, fine performances by her actors and a spare and intelligent script to produce a simple, moving story of two lost lives. The movement of the story from the dark confines of the tent Xiu Xiu and Lao Jin share to the almost limitless prairies and big skys of the Tibetan highlands follows the emotional pulse of the film. Expert camera work creates perspectives that sweep from the touchingly intimate to the overwhelmingly vast, exploring the characters from inside and out. Wonderful, economical performances from newcomer Lu Lu and Tibetan stage veteran Lopsang give profound and touching insight into the extraordinariness of two ordinary people. Chen saves the story from descent into melodrama by a precise and thoughtful restraint that respects, observes, and never intrudes to seek to "explain" or apologize. A film worth going out of one's way to see.