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Huang Jianxin (born 14 June 1954) is a Chinese filmmaker. He also writes film scripts under the pen name Huang Xin. He is normally considered part of the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers (a group that includes Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Tian Zhuangzhuang), [1] due to shared traits in his works, although he was not a strictly a member of ...
A young Chinese woman embarks on an adulterous affair after she is forced to marry a wooden statue of her dead fiance. Politically sharp, visually handsome.
On the other hand, it should be stressed that this is a first film for Huang Jianxin - he later refined his film-making considerably. The performances are good, and the idea behind the film is excellent, but the basic storytelling lags behind a bit - the endless meetings and circular conversations may be historically and symbolically realistic, but they don't really excite an audience.
More. Review by Formerly Real🥀 3. In the western world the 5th Generation is largely understood as being a movement comprised of the aesthetically stunning, melancholic folk cinema of Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Wu Ziniu. This neglects a second strand of writer/directors beginning with Huang Jianxin who looked to urban modernity for inspiration.
It is easy merely to assert that Huang Jianxin was perhaps the most politically daring young director to appear in China in the troubled 1980s.
Jun 13, 1994 · Even Wang’s young wife, initially a shrewish nag, develops sympathetic wrinkles, mostly through the lunatic subplot of her sly old father-in-law quietly trying to poison her daughter (and make ...
Huang Jianxin (born 14 June 1954) is a Chinese filmmaker. He also writes film scripts under the pen name Huang Xin.
