A Girl from Hunan

A Girl from Hunan
Video cover
Directed byXie Fei
U Lan
Written byZhang Xian
Short story:
Shen Congwen
Produced byDon Yaping
StarringNaren Hua
Deng Xiaoguang
CinematographyFu Jingsheng
Edited byZhang Lanfong
Music byYe Xiaogang
Production
company
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

A Girl from Hunan (also known as Girl from Hunan) (Chinese: 湘女萧萧; pinyin: Xiāngnǔ xiāoxiāo) is a 1986 Chinese drama film directed by Xie Fei and U Lan. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival,[1] and was one of the first mainland Chinese films to be commercially screened in the United States.[2] The film is based on a 1929 short-story, Xiao Xiao (or Hsiao Hsiao), by author Shen Congwen.[3]

Plot

A Girl from Hunan tells the story of a willful young girl (initially played by Lin Qing and played as an adult by Naren Hua) who, at the start of the film, is about to enter into an arranged marriage with a two-year-old child, Chun Guan. Xiao Xiao, the girl in question, is only twelve.

Left by her uncle in this remote village, Xiao Xiao is expected to be less of a wife than a mother to her new husband and lives under the domineering control of her mother-in-law. Now sixteen, Xiao Xiao catches the eye of a farmhand, Hua Gou (played by Deng Xiaoguang). She lets herself be seduced by him and soon finds herself pregnant. Knowing that the traditional village still executes women for adultery, Xiao Xiao is desperate to abort the baby but fails to accomplish her goal.

With her pregnancy clear, Xiao Xiao faces the wrath of her mother-in-law, only to be saved by the appeal of her young husband, who has grown to love his wife, though perhaps more as a mother-figure than a spouse. When Xiao Xiao's child, a boy, is born, her mother-in-law begins the process of marrying off the child to yet another adolescent girl.

A Girl from Hunan describe a beautiful human nature to defeat the old feudal customs, also reflecting the environment of Western Hunan is a closed place. Shen Congwen's distinct intoxication with the Chinese way of life[4] can also be seen in the novel. Among them are simplicity, innocence, ignorance, confusion and freedom. Typical figure Xiao Xiao has no culture, has not been infected by the outside world. She had a young and beautiful heart with a primitive vitality, and in her we could feel a natural and unpolished beauty of human nature. People without intrigue and selfishness. It just full of warmth, we can see from rustling sweetness between Xiao Xiao and her little husband, Xiao Xiao's delicate feelings towards Motley, the pure friendship between her little husband and Motley, the love and care of her grandfather, and the tolerance of the patriarch to Xiao Xiao after her unexpected pregnancy. It reflects the beauty of human nature.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: A Girl from Hunan". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  2. ^ a b Canby, Vincent (4 March 1988). "Film: 'Girl from Hunan' - Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
  3. ^ Duzan, Brigitte (4 October 2010). "" Xiaoxiao " (《萧萧》) La nouvelle de Shen Congwen (沈从文) et son adaptation par Xie Fei (谢飞)" (in French). Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  4. ^ Chang, Shirley (2000). "The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China". The Journal of Asian Studies. 59 (3): 721–723. doi:10.2307/2658965 – via ABI/INFORM Collection.

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