11 Flowers
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 11, 2013
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Liu Wenqing | |
Directed by | Wang Xiaoshuai | |
Screenwriting by | Wang Xiaoshuai |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Because of its choice in subjectivity, and despite the film's historical context, 11 Flowers firmly elevates the experience of the personal over the political.
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Slant Magazine
11 FLOWERS never allows politics to overwhelm its fondly intimate portrait of life in a Chinese village in 1975.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The movie lingers in the mind, largely because director Wang Xiaoshuai's theme is poignant and classic: The more a child perceives of what the adults around him are doing, the more childhood slips away.
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New York Post
Rating: 3/5 --
Wang Xiaoshuai's gently engrossing coming-of-age tale isn't strikingly unique, but it does possess the heartfelt confidence that comes from autobiographical influence - and natural talent.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Poised on the brink of sexual awareness and the waning of the Cultural Revolution, an 11-year-old boy struggles to interpret the signals from his changing body and an increasingly confusing world.
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
A richly directed and historically credible film that -- with its sense of time and place -- ends up functioning as fascinating and poignant temporal travelogue.
Times-Picayune
This brilliant coming-of-age story should demonstrate that Americans should be hacking Chinese computers to steal intellectual property and not the other way around--especially Hollywood.
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Product Description:
Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai directed and co-wrote this evocative drama of life in the waning days of the Cultural Revolution. It's the mid-'70s, and 11-year-old Wang Han (Liu Wenquing) is adjusting to life in a new town; under government orders, his father (Wang Jinchun) left his job in a coastal city and has relocated to a factory in a run-down inland community. While Wang Han, his mother (Yen Ni), and his younger sister (Zhao Shiqi) strive to make the best of their new circumstances, his father's busy schedule means they rarely see him, and they're on a tighter budget than ever before. The family's finances become an issue for Wang Han when he's chosen to lead the exercises in his physical-education class and is told he'll need a new shirt for the occasion; the shirt in question will use up the family's entire fabric ration for the year, and his mother is openly resentful over what she sees as a foolish use of their resources. Although Wang Han gets his shirt, it's soon stolen from him, and his search for it leads him to a young man named Jueqiang (Wang Ziyi), who is hiding from the police in the woods following a violent act of defiance against the authorities. WO 11 (aka 11 FLOWERS) received its North American premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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- UPC: 720229915496
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