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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
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R,1hr 39min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
May 7, 1999
Director:
Joan Chen
Distributor:
Stratosphere Entertainment
Starring:
Lu Lu, Lopsang, Qian Zheng  ...more
Synopsis: Actress Joan Chen makes her directorial debut with this bleak tale, adapted from the award-winning novella "Tian Yu" by Shanghai writer Yan Geling, about the loss of innocence during Mao Zedong's brutal Cultural Revolution. Precocious Wen Xiu (16-year-old Lu Lu), playfully called Xiu Xiu by her friends, finds herself one of millions of Chinese teenagers sent to the hinterlands to receive specialized training during the early 1970s. She is taken from her loving family in Chengdu to the Tibetan steppes, ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Definitely not a frivolous project by a dilettante actress, Joan Chen's directorial debut Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) is a beautifully mounted and emotionally harsh indictment of the Chinese Cultural Revolution's "re-education" program for urban children. Rather than an ensemble city film like prior anti-Cultural Revolution works, Xiu Xiu's virtually two-character, rural story presents the bureaucratic ... Full Review
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Lu Lu
Wenxiu (Xiu Xiu)
Lopsang
Lao Jin
Qian Zheng
Li Chaunbei
Gao Jie
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