Shower
Time Out says
It's a bit disconcerting that it starts with its most amusing scene - a daydream vision of the bath-house of the future as a kind of carwash for humans - but Zhang's wry lament for the public baths of yesteryear is fresh, funny and sad enough to survive playing its trump cards too early. The elderly Mr Liu (Zhu) runs the dilapidated Qingshui Bath-house in Beijing, offering baths, showers, body scrubs, aria practice and a sense of community to men of all ages. His retarded son Erming (Jiang, brother of the great Jiang Wen) is a loyal helper; his elder son Daming, embarrassed by the family business, has gone off to get rich in the Special Economic Zones down south. The characters, twists and sub-plots are all straight out of soap opera, but Zhang marshalls them with enough skill to make the whole a credible reflection of modernisation and loss in present-day China.
Details
Release details
Duration:
93 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Zhang Yang
Screenwriter:
Zhang Yang, Cai Xiangjun, Huo Xin, Diao Yinan, Liu Fendou
Cast:
Li Ding
Du Peng
Pu Cunxin
Zhu Xu
Jiang Wu
Dui Shun
Du Peng
Pu Cunxin
Zhu Xu
Jiang Wu
Dui Shun
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