Yang Lina : 2013
Chungmeng
In today's China, the middle classes provide a supreme example of materialism, emptiness and yearning. The nouveau riche seem united only in their unstoppable race for more material wealth. Fang Lei only has to care for her daughter. Safely cocooned in a loveless but peaceful marriage, she spends much of her time shopping with girlfriends. Her anxieties about dying, about her husband being unfaithful, only emerge in her dreams. One night, a mysterious young lover appears and makes passionate love to her. Time and again, he allows her to enjoy unprecedented pleasure and soon Fang Lei is no longer able to separate reality from dream and regards the man of her dreams as her real husband. She is happy, carefree and beautiful. Until a jealous rival looms up in her dreams. Yang Lina's fiction feature debut is an Asian ghost story in which documentary scenes show how incongruous today's reality can look in China. Her film premiered in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013.
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