JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Focus: East Asian Films Now

White River

MA Xue

Korea 2023 92min DCP Color Fiction 18Asian Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
168	2023. 04. 28	20:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5	HKE18GV	Ticket Wish
231	2023. 04. 29	14:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 4	HKE18GV	Ticket Wish
738	2023. 05. 04	19:00	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 1	HKE18	Ticket Wish

Overview

Yang Fan and her husband, Yuan Yong, and Xiao Fang, a restaurant attendant, continued from night to day, and from the sun to a treacherous night. The stories that happened to each other are absurd but extremely sad. The three people were bound to each other but could not leave each other.

Review

Screened in the Bright Future Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, this Chinese film White River is unusual in many ways: it was officially produced in South Korea, but it is practically a Chinese film and has an uncommonly significant number of erotic scenes for a Chinese movie, and had a female director, MA Xue. As female film critic Jessica McGoff wrote, the film “effortlessly subverts the dominant representation of female sexuality, eschewing objectification to discover new forms of sensuality.” The erotic depictions in White River feel different from those of male directors. Yang Fan, who lives in Yanjiao, a Chinese bedroom town, is the protagonist. The film explores the sexual coexistence of Yang Fan, her voyeuristic husband, and a restaurant owner, blending with frankness and a sense of fantasy. This is the debut film of director MA Xue, who worked on many major Chinese films as a producer and went to university in South Korea. (MOON Seok)

CREDIT

DirectorMA Xue
ProducerMA Xue, SHAN Zuolong
ScreenplayMA Xue, XU Weihao
CinematographyAsh CHEN
GafferWANG Quanzhao

Production DesignLI Shuai
MusicZHANG Di
EditorQIN Yanan
SoundLI Tao

CastTIAN Yuan, SONG Ningfeng, XU Weihao

FILM SOURCE

Lumix Media Co., Ltd. ㅣ lumixmedia@daum.net

DIRECTOR

MA Xue

Born in Beijing, China. She received a double degree in Korean and art from Peking University. She made her directorial debut with White River.

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