Time Out's Film Screenings: King of the Children
Sunday 10 July, 4.15pm, Free
Every month, Time Out Shanghai show one of the best Chinese films of all time at Glam, M on The Bund, with free popcorn and drinks specials.
The Film
Dir Chen Kaige, 1987; Drama.
An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of the Cultural Revolution, is labouring in the countryside when he is suddenly assigned to teach in a nearby village school. Gradually, he finds the confidence to ditch the Maoist textbook and encourage the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings. There are echoes here of the likes of Padre Padrone, but Chen Kaige’s film is completely free of flabby humanist sentimentality. It takes its tonality from the harsh beauty of the Yunnan landscape of soaring forests and misty valleys; a territory of the mind where hard-edged realism blurs easily into hallucination.
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