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Family Portrait

Special Programs in Focus

Family · Urbanization · Psychology

CountryChina
Production Year1992
Running Time158min
Format35mm
ColorCOLOR

Program Note

Set against the backdrop of post-Tianamen Beijing, Family portrait is an intimate picture of modern day life in urban China. If Bloody Morning is still reminiscent of certain traits common to most fifth generation filmmakers, then Family Portrait is a total departure from the latter, both in content and form. No longer interested in grandiose cultural/political allegories, the film depicts the gradual disintegration of a model family after the unexpected arrival of a son from an ex-marriage, focusing on feelings and emotions of ordinary folks, as well as details of everyday life. It is no accident that the protagonist is a photographer, seeing reality through the lenses, spontaneous, lucid, yet always at a distance. (Wong Ain-Ling)

Director

Li Shaohong

Born in 1955. Joined the army in 1976 and enrolled herself in the Beijing Film Academy in 1978, part of the first group of students to be admitted after the Cultural Revolution, graduating in 1982. She made her debut with The Case of the Silver Snake in 1988. With her second feature Bloody Morning(1990), adapted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez′ ＂Chronicle of a Death Foretold,＂she establishes herself as a filmmaker of talent, stemming from the same cultural and historical and historical context as her fifth generation contemporaries, but subtly revealing a sensitivity of her own. Other films: Family portrait(1991), Blush(1995). (Wong Ain-Ling)

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