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Beautiful Men

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LGBT · Love/Romance · Music/Dance  

  • CountryChina
  • Production Year2005
  • Running Time100min
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
In Chengdu, China, we can see the feast of dance in a bar. We can enjoy a variety of dances Chinese classical dance, ballet, and modern dance-in the red spotlight. There′s no guideline for what to play or what to dance. But there′s one very strict condition about who performs. The bar is open exclusively to drag queens. For 90 minutes from 10 o′clock every night, the transvestites dancers are allowed to be honest with their inner voices on the stage. Beautiful Men is a documentary about three drag queens, and it captures their lives in and out of the drag bar. Sister Sha, the first love of the bar owner, had her first performance in the bar in ′60s, and she won′t quit dancing until she turns 60 years old. Qingqing, the famous veteran dancer, accidentally marries a woman and will soon become a father. Xixi, the rising star, delicately maintains a relationship with his lesbian girlfriend, whom he plans to marry in order to please his parents. Interestingly, the film shows different parts of the bar at the same time. It divides the screen into several slices and assigns each slice to the stage-the backstage, the hall and the modern landscapes of the city where the bar is located. This split screen helps us to contemplate the issue of sexual identity. How absurd and conflicting an issue it is! (Nam In-young)
Director
Haibin Du
Haibin Du was born in Xi′an, China, and he studied photography at the Beijing Film Academy. He has shown his photographs and film stills at several exhibitions. His first documentary, My Mom and My Dad(1999) was produced for CCTV. Along the Railway (2001) won the Best Documentary Award at the 1st China Independent Film Festival. It also won special mention at the 2001 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
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  • Director Haibin Du 두 하이빈
  • Cast Haibin Du
  • Editor Haibin Du