Zheng Lu Xinyuan : 2020
Ta fang jian li de yun
Muzi's parents' old apartment is still there. A bed, an abandoned chair, a window falling off its hinges – the remnants of a relationship that has moved on. Her father has started a new family, her mother has friends abroad; it seems like only Muzi cares about this place as she wanders several times through this static past. We follow 22-year-old Muzi as she returns to Hangzhou, where she was born, for the New Year's celebration. She arranges to meet old friends, makes some new ones and visits her parents, with whom she is mostly on friendly terms. It's like she doesn't really fit in anywhere. Muzi is living in limbo: like the apartment, she has stopped, caught between past and future. The director's personal story about the fast pace of change in her country, yet also a universal story about love, relationships, the impossibility of keeping these going and the loneliness this causes. Zheng Lu Xinyuan's feature debut was winner of the Tiger Award when it premiered in competition in the Bright Future section at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020.
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