Film
In the Heat of the Sun
May 5—May 9, 2017
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RUN TIME: 140min
FORMAT: DCP
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May 2017
Friday May 05, 2017
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2017
series Jiang Wen Rising
Directed by Jiang Wen | 1994
With Xia Yu, Ning Jing, Geng Le
Jiang’s anarchic take on the coming of age saga follows daredevil teen Monkey (Xia) as he and his friends run wild through the streets of Beijing during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, envisioned by the director as a sun-splashed urban wilderness of youthful abandon. Pulsing with visual imagination—particularly in the dynamic, unchained camerawork—it’s frustratingly hard to see in the US, but ranks as one of the major works of 1990s Chinese cinema.
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