7 October 2012

Song of Silence



Chen Zhuo : 2012
Yang mei zhou

Xiao Jing lives with her mother and grandparents in a small fishing village in Hunan Province. Her only real emotional connection is with her uncle, a mentally handicapped artist whom she occasionally poses for. Instead of going to school, the deaf-mute teenager spends her time on his fishing boat, until one day she gets too close to him. Xiao Mei, a city kid rock musician of the same age, travels from club to club with her guitar, dreaming of an independent life. When Jing goes to live in the city with her hardboiled police officer father Haoyang, the two girls come together. Mei is Haoyang's lover. Despite an initial stand-off, the three manage to open up and create an emotional tie that gives their lives new perspective. In elegantly nested sequences, the film tells of the meeting and separating of these three figures, each of which is isolated in their own way. Winner of the Golden Firebird at Hong Kong International Film Festival 2012.

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