JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Focus: East Asian Films Now

Yangzi's Confusion

LI Jue

China 2022 101min DCP Color Fiction 12International Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
118	2023. 04. 28	10:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10	HKE12GV	Ticket Wish
428	2023. 05. 01	14:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 2	HKE12	Ticket Wish
917	2023. 05. 06	14:30	CGV Jeonjugosa 5	HKE12	Ticket Wish

Overview

Yangzi, a ten-year-old girl, stole her mom's diary to discover why her mom abandoned her. But her mom does not want to communicate with her. On her grandma's 60th birthday, they have to face each other.

Review

Yangzi's Confusion is a film about three women, their families, and modern Chinese society. Meihui, who has been successful in her career since her divorce, has a mother who is also divorced and a 10-year-old daughter, Yangzi. Her mother stubbornly lives alone in her country house after her divorce even though her children are willing to take care of her, and her adolescent daughter Yangzi looks into Meihui's diary and gets hurt, thinking that her mother abandoned her. Meihui's twisted family relationship runs to a peak at her mother's 60th birthday party. As industrialization and urbanization progressed, the number of jobs for women increased in Chinese society, and as traditional values and young people's ideas conflicted, the birth rate declined, and the divorce rate increased rapidly. Director LI Jue is delicately delivering the problem of divorce families from the perspective of children and mothers. The performances of Huang Xiaolei as Meihui, who seems successful to others but is terrified by her mother's stubbornness and daughter's defiance, and Zheng Yayun, who plays Yangzi, an adolescent girl with a dry expression, are awe-inspiring. (CHUN Jinsu)

CREDIT

DirectorLI Jue
ProducerCHEN Hong
ScreenplayLI Jue
CinematographyMA Jian
GafferCAO Erlong

Production DesignMENG Luyue
MusicZHANG Xiaochen
EditorDhjraj KAFLE
SoundLUO Jun

CastHUANG Xiaolei, ZHENG Yayun, TANG Zeng, GONG Hongjia

FILM SOURCE

Beijing Yun Film ㅣ 469128355@qq.com

DIRECTOR

LI Jue

Born in 1990, Yunnan, China. Her debut film Yangzi's Confusion (2023) was nominated for the Fei Mu Awards and People's Choice Award at the Pingyao IFF 2022.

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