Seventeen Years
Time Out says
Seventeen years after accidentally murdering her stepsister in a fight, Tao Xiaolan (Liu) is given a new year furlough from prison. Since no one shows up to collect her, young prison guard Chen (Li Bingbing) offers to escort her home. But the family house in Tianjin has been demolished. In the course of finding where Tao's parents now live (and steering the nervous woman into a reunion with them), Tao and Chen form an unexpected bond. Zhang's first fiction feature since his rapprochement with the Film Bureau is a solid art movie: sensitive, understated, psychologically acute and quietly emotive. In other words, less interesting than the risky, provocative and often revelatory work he did as an 'illegal' underground film-maker.
Details
Release details
Duration:
99 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Zhang Yuan
Screenwriter:
Yu Hua, Ning Dai, Zhu Wen
Cast:
Liu Lin
Li Bingbing
Le Yeping
Liang Song
Li Jun
Li Bingbing
Le Yeping
Liang Song
Li Jun