Dir. QUAN Ling | 2013 | China | 87 mins | Mandarin w/ES | U.S. Premiere
Life goes on for Xuesong at her corner store and her carpenter husband Weihang in a small town on the Yangzte River. Mundane chores, financial burden, and distrust gradually escalate the dormant tension underlying the marriage when Weihang’s feelings of inadequacy and simmering paranoia about his wife’s admirers erupt. Produced by acclaimed director JIA Zhangke, this debut feature of QUAN Ling depicts the seventh-year marital crisis and the woes of materialism. The film, acclaimed at Berlinale 2013, casts a subtle and unsentimental look at the alienation in an otherwise intimate relationship.
About the Filmmaker:
Quan Ling, born in Chongqing. Now living in Hong Kong. She published her first short novel in 1999, and persisted in writing short novels ever since. Her works have been published among the magazines such as Writer, Harvest and People’s Literature. Her Chu Nv Gong Mu and Ha Dai Shi Pian Zhong De Shen Mi Zhong Jie were selected as one of the best short novels of the year by Chinese Novelists Association. In 2009, she first founded the “Coffee House Short Novel Prize”. Forgetting To Know You is her first film, which got the “Most Creative Award” of CFPC in Shanghai International Film Festival 2010.
Screening:
Sunday July 28, 2013 | 1:00 pm
Anthology Film Archivies (AFA)
Courthouse Theater (CH)
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