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Bookmark this pageBaober in Love (2003)
Director: Li Shaohong
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Thrown out of his swanky Beijing apartment by his wife, unfulfilled wage-slave Liu (magnetic newcomer Huang) sets up home with the wild and crazy Baober (Zhou in her best role since Suzhou River). They enjoy a period of psychedelic rapture (the entire film is digitally retouched, a first for China), but he carelessly drives her away and finds himself bereft and helpless. She, meanwhile, takes up with a physically handicapped sportsman. Liu's frantic search for her uncovers some uncomfortable truths about her past and his sexism. A Chinese Betty Blue (but without the misogynistic pay-off), it's funny, sexy and sad in equal measures - and the mix of oneiric fantasy and social realism is fresh and winning. None of Li's films looks or sounds much like any of the others, but this ground-breaker establishes her as the only 'fifth generation' director to keep pace with changing times.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Li Shaohong
Producer: Li Xiaowan, Ah Bao
Cast: Zhou Xun, Huang Jue, Chen Kun, Wang Peiyi, Liao Fan full cast
Duration: 100 mins
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