In Gu Jia Gou Village, 150 km from Beijing, men outnumber women. Some buy wives from faraway Sichuan province. Other remain bachelors; they gossip and complain together - yet find ways to have a sex life. Lao Yang is still in love with the girl he was forbidden to marry as a young man; she is now the middle-aged wife of the village head, but they sneak out for secret trysts. Yet, Lao Yang wants more...
Acting
Yang Zhenjun's weathered face does decades of longing in silence.
Direction
Hao Jie finds absurd humor in bleak rural desperation.
Director
Jie Hao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a real village with a 3:1 male-to-female ratio, using local non-actors who lived these stories.
Director Hao Jie smuggled footage past censors by submitting a fake script; the final cut screened only at festivals.
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