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In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
Director: Jiang Wen
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From Time Out Film Guide
Actor Jiang Wen's first feature is a archetypal rites-of-passage film about a group of boys entering puberty one hot summer in Beijing: fooling around, showing off and bonding, spying on girls, clashing with other gangs, dealing with pesky erections. Two things distinguish it. One is Jiang's own wry voice-over, admitting that these are romanticised and sometimes wished-for episodes from his own childhood. The other is the mid-1970s setting, the dog days of the Cultural Revolution, after all the Maoist frenzy, which it shows as no movie has ever done before.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Jiang Wen
Producer: Ki Po, Hsu An-chin, Gou Youliang
Cast: Xia Yu, Ning Jing, Geng Le, Shang Nan, Tao Hong, Siqin Gaowa full cast
Duration: 134 mins
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