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Only the River Flows • Director Shujun Wei

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Solo el río fluye

河边的错误在线

Shujun Wei

China

2023

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Only The River Flows ('15'): Bleak Chinese Noir that requires concentration (and then some).

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Only the River Flows” (2023) (from the London Film Festival). Original Chinese Title: 河边的错屋 (He bian de cuo wu) I attended the UK premier showing of this one introduced by the director himself, Shujun Wei (see the video below the trailer). This is a film noir, Chinese-style. I enjoyed the experience, but frankly found it very difficult to follow. But I’ll admit…

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Only The River Flows (2023) Shujun Wei

河边的错误 only the river flows (2023)

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He bian de cuo wu aka Only the river flows,2023, Wei Shujun

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Chen Zheyuan, Wen Qi, Victor Ma, director Wei Shujun & more for cover of Harper’s Bazaar China’s October 2023 issue

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Watch UK Trailer For Chinese Noir Only The River Flows

Some mysteries run deep like in stylish Chinese noir thriller Only The River Flows. Ahead of next month’s cinema release, Picturehouse Entertainment have released the UK Trailer which asks ‘what type of darkness at play here?’ The film made it’s world premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2023, part of Cannes Un Certain Regard Official Selection. Directed by indie filmmaker Wei Shujun and stars Zhu…

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Huang Xiaoming in the film DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY (阳光俱乐部), which will premiere at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival.

The movie, whose Chinese title translates to "Sunshine Club," revolves around a mentally challenged man (Huang Xiaoming) who lives a happy life with his optimistic mother. But the family is soon shook to its core when the mother is diagnosed with cancer, prompting the protagonist to believe he can help through the power of positive energy, while his elder brother, a doctor, attempts to cure her through conventional means.

Xiaoming spent more than a month dining, talking and studying with mentally challenged people. He also gained more than 15 kilograms in weight and paid visits to the family of mentally challenged persons to portray the role well.

"I am a family-oriented person," said Huang. "I love this script and the story of this special group of people touched me."

The film is helmed by post-90s generation director Wei Shujun. Xiaoming spoke highly of young director Wei's distinct expressive style of the story and characters, adding that it had been his long-time wish to cooperate with him.

Sources: 1, 2

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Only the River Flows stills. Directed by Wei Shujun & starring Zhu Yilong as Ma Zhe.

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Lotus Lantern (2005) 宝莲灯

Director: Yu Mingsheng Screenwriter: Nine years Starring: Jun Cao / Shu Chang / Enjun / Jiao / Lin Xiangping Yuqiao / Liu Liu Liu Xiaoqing / Yan Danchen / Xie Ning / Wang Weiguo / Chen Chuang / Ding Jian / Xiaofeng Luo Wei / Pu Shiyan Zhang Zhichao / Tian Erxi / Wu Zhou Jie / Guohua You Benchang / Wang Yonggui / Li Baocheng Zhao / Shujun / Li Jianxun Zhu Yaying / Li Liu Jie / Jiayi Ye Yina / Ma Liqing / Yang Si / Wang Wensheng / Ma Jielin / Tian Xuemin / Zhao Qi / Zong Fengyan / Wan Luo Guangyue / Li Dou / Ying / Tang Nien / Liu Shuxing / Shi Liang / Cheng Sudong / Lu Bing / Wang Xiang / Yao Changjiang / Xi Xianfeng / Yuan Han / Shen Jie / Deng Jia / Guo Ye / Wang Jiayu / DuduMore Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Costume Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2005-10-04 (Mainland China) Number of episodes: 35 Single episode length: 46 minutes Also known as: New Lotus Lantern / 新宝莲灯 IMDb: tt4776994 Type: Reimagining

Summary:

Chen Xiang (played by Cao Jun), a young man in a small town, and his father Liu Yanchang (played by Liu Xiaofeng) have been living a peaceful life until one day, Chen Xiang accidentally discovers that he actually contains "magic power" in his body and could pass through walls effortlessly. After his father learned about it, he told Chen Xiang the fact that he had hidden for many years, that is, Chen Xiang's mother was actually the San Sheng Mu (played by Park Meixuan) in heaven. Because she violated the rules of heaven and married herself as a mortal, she was captured by heaven to an unknown destination. Chen Xiang was shocked to learn the truth and decided to overcome all difficulties to rescue his mother. Er Lang Shen (Jiao Enjun), who sees everything in his eyes, is Chen Xiang's uncle and decides to stop Chen Xiang's journey to save his mother. Thus, this difficult trip to save the mother kicked off with the interference of Erlang Shen. During the journey, Chen Xiang met many kind-hearted people and spirits, encountered various resistances, and even wanted to give up. But in the end, it was no match for his determination to save his mother...

Source: https://tv-1.chinesemov.com/tv/2005/Lotus%20Lantern

Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10scWhSJdfGojWzhbiYNBCM9KgZi1sk_

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[CANNES 2023] NOTRE TOP

Le Festival de Cannes est désormais terminé. On a vu pas moins de 85 films (dont 19 sur les 21 de la Compétition), toutes catégories confondues ! Le classement de nos films préférés parmi ceux-ci, avec les dates annoncées de sortie en salles, ci-dessous :  1. ‘Eureka’ de Lisandro Alonso (CPR) 2. ‘Le Procès Goldman’ de Cédric Kahn (QC, 27/09) 3. ‘Anatomie d’une chute’ de Justine Triet (SOC, 23/08) 4. ‘Jeunesse (Le Printemps)’ de Wang Bing (SOC, 03/01/24) 5. ‘L'Enlèvement’ de Marco Bellocchio (SOC, 01/11) 6. ‘Les Feuilles mortes’ d’Aki Kaurismaki (SOC, 20/09) 7. ‘Fermer les yeux’ de Victor Erice (CPR, 16/08)  8. ‘May December’ de Todd Haynes (SOC) 9. ‘La Zone d’intérêt’ de Jonathan Glazer (SOC, 31/01/24) 10. ‘L'Eté dernier’ de Catherine Breillat (SOC, 13/09) 11. ‘The Sweet East’ de Sean Price Williams (QC) 12. ‘Los Delincuentes’ de Rodrigo Moreno (UCR, 27/03/24) 13. ‘La Grâce’ d’Ilya Povolotsky (QC) 14. ‘Only the River Flows’ de Shujun Wei (UCR) 15. ‘Les Herbes sèches’ de Nuri Bilge Ceylan (SOC, 12/07) 16. ‘Conann’ de Bertrand Mandico (QC, 28/11) 17. ‘La Chimère’ d’Alice Rohrwacher (SOC, 06/12) 18. ’La Fille de son père’ d’Erwan Le Duc (SM, 20/12) 19. ’Lost Country’ de Vladimir Perisič (SC, 11/10) 20. ‘Conte de feu’ de Weston Razooli (QC) 21. ‘Mars Express’ de Jérémie Périn (CPL, 22/11) 22. ‘Vers un avenir radieux’ de Nanni Moretti (SOC, 28/06) 23. ‘L’Autre Laurens’ de Claude Schmitz (QC, 04/10) 24. ‘Elémentaire’ de Peter Sohn (HC, 21/06) 25. ‘Banel & Adama’ de Ramata-Toulaye Sy (SOC, 30/08) 26. ‘Anselm, le bruit du temps’ de Wim Wenders (SS, 18/10) 27. ‘Le Règne animal’ de Thomas Cailley (UCR, 04/10) 28. ‘Simple comme Sylvain’ de Monia Chokri (UCR, 08/11) 29. ‘Ama Gloria’ de Marie Amachoukeli (SC, 30/08) 30. ‘Club Zéro’ de Jessica Hausner (SOC, 27/09) 31. ‘Linda veut du poulet !’ de Chiara Malta et Sébastien Laudenbach (ACID, 18/10) 32. ‘Si seulement je pouvais hiberner’ de Zoljargal Purevdash (UCR, 27/12) 33. ‘L’Amour et les forêts’ de Valérie Donzelli (CPR, en salles) 34. ‘La Mère de tous les mensonges’ d’Asmae El Moudir (UCR) 35. ‘Légua’ de Filipa Reis et João Miller Guerra 36. ‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ de Joanna Arnow (QC) 37. ‘Augure’ de Baloji (UCR, 22/11) 38. ‘Les Colons’ de Felipe Galvez (UCR, 20/12) 39. ‘Vincent doit mourir’ de Stéphan Castang (SC, 15/11) 40. ‘De nos jours...’ de Hong Sang-soo (QC, 19/07) 41. ‘Merle merle mûre’ d’Elene Naveriani (QC) 42. ‘Dans la toile’ de Kim Jee-woon (HC, 08/11) 43. ‘The Old Oak’ de Ken Loach (SOC, 25/10) 44. ‘Monster’ de Hirokazu Kore-eda (SOC, 27/12) 45. ’Sleep’ de Jason Yu (SC) 46. ‘Occupied City’ de Steve McQueen (SS) 47. ‘Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe’ de Martin Provost (CPR) 48 ‘Goodbye Julia’ de Mohamed Kordofani (UCR, 08/11) 49. ‘L’Arbre aux papillons d’or’ de Thien An Pham (QC, 13/09) 50. ‘Chambre 999’ de Lubna Playoust (CC) 51. ‘Le Livre des solutions’ de Michel Gondry (QC, 13/09) 52. ‘Les Meutes’ de Kamal Lazraq (UCR, 19/07) 53. ‘Le Ravissement’ d’Iris Kaltenbäck (SC, 11/10) 54. ‘Little Girl Blue’ de Mona Achache (SS, 01/11) 55. ‘Creatura’ d’Elena Martín Gimeno (QC) 56. ‘Perfect Days’ de Wim Wenders (SOC, 29/11) 57. ‘Lost in the Night’ d’Amat Escalante (CPR, 04/10) 58. ‘La Fleur de Buriti’ de João Salaviza et Renée Nader (UCR) 59. ‘Le Syndrome des amours passées’ d’Ann Sirot et Raphaël Balboni (SC, 25/10) 60. ‘Un hiver à Yanji’ d’Anthony Chen (UCR, 22/11) 61. ��Power Alley’ de Lillah Halla (SC, 22/11) 62. ‘Asteroid City’ de Wes Anderson (SOC, 21/06) 63. ‘Une nuit’ d’Alex Lutz (UCR, 05/07) 64. ‘Les Filles d'Olfa’ de Kaouther Ben Hania (SOC, 05/07) 65. ‘Indiana Jones et le cadran de la destinée’ de James Mangold (HC, 28/06) 66. ‘Chroniques de Téhéran’ d’Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami (UCR, 27/12) 67. ‘Acide’ de Just Philippot (SM, 20/09) 68. ‘Un prince’ de Pierre Creton (QC, 18/10) 69. ‘Déserts’ de Faouzi Bensaïdi (QC, 20/09) 70. ’Il pleut dans la maison’ de Paloma Sermon-Daï (SC) 71. ‘Rien à perdre’ de Delphine Deloget (UCR, 22/11) 72. ‘La Passion de Dodin Bouffant’ de Tran Anh Hung (SOC, 08/11) 73. ‘How to Have Sex’ de Molly Manning Walker (UCR, 15/11) 74. ‘Le Jeu de la reine’ de Karim Aïnouz (SOC, 28/02/24) 75. ‘A Song Sung Blue’ de Zihan Geng (QC, 06/12) 76. ‘Jeanne du Barry’ de Maïwenn (HC, en salles) 77. ‘Rosalie’ de Stéphanie di Giusto (UCR, 24/01/24) 78. ‘In Flames’ de Zarrar Kahn (QC) 79. ‘Hopeless’ de Kim Chang-hoon (UCR) 80. ’Tiger Stripes’ d’Amanda Nell Eu (SC, 13/03/24) 81. ‘The Idol’ (série, épisodes 1 et 2) de Sam Levinson (HC, 05/06) 82. ‘The New Boy’ de Warwick Thornton (UCR) 83. ‘Omar la Fraise’ d’Elias Belkeddar (SM, en salles) 84. ‘Hypnotic’ de Robert Rodriguez (SM, 23/08) 85. ‘Agra’ de Kanu Behl (QC) SOC : Sélection Officielle - Compétition UCR : Un Certain Regard CPR : Cannes Première CPL : Cinéma de la Plage HC : Hors Compétition QC : Quinzaine des Cinéastes SC : Semaine de la Critique SM : Séances de Minuit CC : Cannes Classics ACID : L’ACID Nos chroniques de ces films sont à retrouver dans les articles Daily #1 à #11 sur notre page dédiée.

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"Only the River Flowers" Review

At the Roxie I watched "Only the River Flows" directed by Wei Shujun. This was a rather odd but interesting neo noir film. It was dark and raining through much of the film. Even though this film was released in 2023, the film had a rather grainy texture. Throughout there were small comedic moments. As the film progressed the detective Captain leading the investigation seemed to be losing his mind just a bit. This seemed to be due to the complexity of the case, memories of his own past which seemed uncertain and his wife's pregnancy and problem that developed with it. Add to that the issue that the main suspect was a "madman" which was the name by which he was known within the community. From IMDb, "Chief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly, clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals". The film also abounds with references to and issues present in China in the 1990s, including the Chief of Police's driving interest in ping pong. The Chief was the boss of the primary detective. I enjoyed this film although distinguishing what was reality and what was not was a bit difficult at times. Too bad the director didn't adopt Tarkovsky's habit of switching from color to b&w in such situations. Well, possibly this director didn't want his audience to have this clarity.

This was a special showing sponsored with a Chinese community group. The director was present and at the end a Q&A session was held. Although it seemed that the director understood English he answered in Mandarin. Also some questions from the audience were in Mandarin. Fortunately there was a translator. However I think not everything was completely or clearly translated because there was laughter at various moments while Mandarin was being spoken but I couldn't figure out anything amusing when the English translation was given. It also seemed that the director didn't necessarily always give clear and/or complete answers. This really isn't unique since I've listened to Q&A sessions totally in English where the same thing occurred.

I do suggest reading the review by Jessica Kiang in Variety, May 25, 2023. It will provide a possibly better and more entertaining view of the film.

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Film „Kritična zona” iranskog reditelja Alija Ahmadzadea najbolji na 29. FAF-u

Pobednik 29. Festivala autorskog filma i dobitnik nagrade Grand Prix „Aleksandar Saša Petrović“ je film „Kritična zona“ reditelja Alija Ahmadzadea.

Nagrada za najbolju režiju dodeljena je filmu „Hir“ autora Ilje Povolockog, dok je nagradu „Gordan Mihić“ za najbolji scenario osvojio film „Ekskurzija“ autorke Une Gunjak. Svo troje autora prisustvovali su uručenju nagrada u velikoj sali mts Dvorane, a FAF je svečano zatvoren projekcijom i poklonom ekipe filma „Seljani“ autorskog para DK i Hju Velčman. 

Žiri takmičarskog programa ovogodišnjeg FAF-a koji je radio u sastavu Valentina Maurel, Vanja Kovačević i Kamen Kalev nagrade za najbolji film i režiju obrazložio je rečima: „Nagradu dodeljujemo filmu koji uvodi iznenađujuć i kreativan novi glas. Filmu koji je darežljiv i pun ideja, koji pokazuje lice mladosti jedne zemlje koje nam uglavnom ostaje skriveno. Filmu koji se odlikuje neverovatno smelim političkim stavom koji samo humor može s takvom silinom iskazati,“ dok se nagrada za najbolju režiju dodeljuje reditelju Ilji Povolockom “koji je u svom napetom debitantskom ostvarenju demonstrirao snažan i samouveren filmski jezik. Film koji spaja dve generacije, izgubljene u ogromnom prostoru bezvremenog krajolika u kom su junaci naizgled odsečeni od sveta”. Nagrada za najbolji scenario „Gordan Mihić” dodeljena je autorki Uni Gunjak uz obrazloženje: „Nagrada za najbolji scenario dodeljuje se filmu koji pametno razotkriva dinamiku izopštavanja i slika portret mlade junakinje koja na svojim plećima mora izneti breme odgovornosti za neuspeh čitavog društva. Ovaj scenario izbegava ikakvu karikaturu kako bi izgradio delikatnu psihološku studiju junakinje”. Žiri takmičarskog programa je dodelio i posebno priznanje filmu „Stepe” rediteljke Marine Vrode.

Nagrada za najbolji i najodvažniji film u selekciji Hrabri Balkan pripala je filmu „Šutnja razuma“ rediteljke Kumjane Novakove. Žiri Hrabrog Balkana Dina Pokrajac, Dimitris Kerkinos i Nikola Stojanović za nagrađeni film je rekao: „Kroz svedenu prezentaciju forenzičkih dokaza, sudskih svedočenja i transkripta, rediteljka i njen tim transformišu strahote iza uznemirujućih podataka u razorno precizan formalni jezik lišen ičega suvišnog, nejasnog ili emocionalno manipulativnog. Žene iz kampova u Foči u kojima su se odvijala silovanja zadivljuju nas svojom hrabrošću koja je promenila tok međunarodnog prava, dok sam film stavlja akcenat na ulivanje snage umesto na viktimizaciju i demonstrira proces isceljenja kroz otpor i preživljavanje kroz suočavanje. Dekolonizujući i vraćajući pravo na arhivu mi vraćamo pravo na svoja tela i sećanja kojima je pretilo nasilno brisanje, biramo emancipaciju umesto ponovne traumatizacije i insistiramo na tome da nikada više nećemo biti ućutkivane”. Posebno priznanje ove selekcije dodeljeno je filmu “Pero” Damjana Kozolea.

Nagradu za najsinematičniju sekvencu u igranom filmu u čast Slavka Vorkapića je proglasio filmski kritičar Ivan Velisavljević koji je o nagrađenom filmu rekao: „Nagrada za najsinematičniju sekvencu dodeljuje se kineskom reditelju Vej Šuđunu (Wei Shujun) za sekvencu sna policijskog inspektora Ma Žea u filmu Samo reka teče. Kinestezija je u ovoj sekvenci ostvarena oniričnom vizuelnošću koja montažno kombinuje simboličke prizora iz naracije, tako da se sama misterija filma razrešava u snu, snagom filmske slike i gledalačke intuitivne investiranosti. Vorkapić i Petrić bili bi jako zadovoljni.“

Udruženje filmskih umetnika Srbije dodelilo je nagradu za najbolje kinematografsko ostvarenje direktoru fotografije Adrianu Durasu za film “Izgubljeni u noći”. Ovogodišnji žiri radio u tročlanom sastavu Draško Plavšić S.A.S, Goran Volarević S.A.S. i Vojislav Gelevski UFUS.

Podsećamo, 29. FAF na bis održaće se u subotu i nedelju, 2. i 3. decembra u mts Dvorani, Dvorani Kulturnog centra Beograda (DKC) i Jugoslovenskoj kinoteci (Uzun Mirkova).

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Only the River Flows, estrelado por Zhu Yilong e dirigido por Wei Shujun, foi selecionado para ser exibido no 28º Busan International Film Festival, que ocorrerá de 4 a 13 de outubro. O cronograma será divulgado em breve.

Trailer de Only the River Flows no canal do YouTube do Busan International Film Festival.