A portrait of urban anomie focusing on two bohemian artists who drift through the miasma of old Beijing in the 1980s.
Cinematography
16mm grain turns gray Beijing into visual poetry.
Direction
Wang Xiaoshuai's debut — already fully-formed style.
Director
Wang Xiaoshuai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1993, this was Wang Xiaoshuai's underground debut — banned in China until 2004.
The actors used their real names and essentially played themselves; Liu Xiaodong's actual paintings appear throughout.
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