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Cry Woman

A Window on Asian Cinema

  • CountryChina
  • Production Year2002
  • Running Time91min
Program Note
What goes on at a funeral reveals the culture and customs of that particular region or society. Liu Bingjian’s Cry Woman looks at Chinese society through such scenes. First, the Chinese custom of ‘wailing’ for the dead is an indicator of how the Chinese people perceive life and death. Liu Bingjian comically and cynically shows us how this affects the lives of Chinese people today, who are living in a rapidly changing society. But sometimes a solemn funeral where people come to mourn for the dead, paradoxically, shows us the intensity of life. It also gives us a glimpse of the changing morals, social consciousness, views on love and money, among other things, of the Chinese people. Cry Woman’s appeal lies in its irony. Guixiang, who has to sing and cry at someone else’s funeral even after the death of her husband, is the epitome of this irony. Then again, isn’t life itself a sometimes unfathomable creature full of contradictions? (Michelle Sohn)
Director
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Liu Bing Jian
Born in 1963, Liu Bingjian graduated from Bejing Film Academy and initially worked in television. His first feature film Inkstone(1996) portrayed an ancestral and traditional China. It was the first Chinese film to be bought by a Hollywood company since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. His second film Men and Women(1999) is a realistic and humorous look at homosexuality in Chinese society, and won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 52nd Locarno Film Festival. Cry Woman is his third feature film.
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  • Director
    Liu Bing Jian
  • ProducerDeng Ye
    Ellen kim
    Michel Reilhac
  • CastLiao Qin
    Wei Xingkun
  • ScreenplayLiu Bingjian
  • CinematographyXu Wei
  • Production DesignLiu Liguo
  • EditorZhou Ying
  • SoundZhu Xiaojia
  • MusicDong Liquiang
  • Production CompanyAsparas Films & TV Production
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  • World SalesMirovision
    kyunghee@mirovision.com
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