Summary:
Actress Joan Chen makes her directorial debut with this bleak tale, adapted from the award-winning novella "Tian Yu" by Shanghai writer Yan Geling, about the loss of innocence during Mao Zedong's brutal Cultural Revolution. Precocious Wen Xiu (16-year-old Lu Lu), playfully called Xiu Xiu by her friends, finds herself one of millions of Chinese teenagers sent to the hinterlands to ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Lu Lu - (Wenxiu (Xiu Xiu))
Lopsang - (Lao Jin)
Qian Zheng - (Li Chaunbei)
Gao Jie - (Mother)
Li Zhizhen - (Headquarters Chief)
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Review:
Definitely not a frivolous project by a dilettante actress, Joan Chen's directorial debut Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) is a beautifully mounted and emotionally harsh indictment of the Chinese Cultural Revolution's "re-education" program for urban children. Rather than an ensemble city film like prior anti-Cultural Revolution work... Continue >>

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