Not One Less (1999)
Country: CHI
Technical: col 106m
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike, Tian Zhenda, Gao Enman
Synopsis:
In rural China a primary school teacher acquires a thirteen year-old substitute for a month, allowing him to visit his sick mother. The girl has no expertise but is tenacious, a quality she displays to an unlikely extent when she sets off in a search of an errant pupil in the big city.
Review:
In some ways reminiscent of The Story of Qiu Ju, this is at once a more realistic film, with its authentic cast, some of whom play their actual roles in this true story, and yet a more sentimental one. The scenes of coke drinking and of the TV company visiting the village sit uneasily alongside the otherwise unidealized view of life in modern China. Nevertheless, it is a film which wins over its audience through the simplicity of its tale and the openness of its human portrayals.
Country: CHI
Technical: col 106m
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike, Tian Zhenda, Gao Enman
Synopsis:
In rural China a primary school teacher acquires a thirteen year-old substitute for a month, allowing him to visit his sick mother. The girl has no expertise but is tenacious, a quality she displays to an unlikely extent when she sets off in a search of an errant pupil in the big city.
Review:
In some ways reminiscent of The Story of Qiu Ju, this is at once a more realistic film, with its authentic cast, some of whom play their actual roles in this true story, and yet a more sentimental one. The scenes of coke drinking and of the TV company visiting the village sit uneasily alongside the otherwise unidealized view of life in modern China. Nevertheless, it is a film which wins over its audience through the simplicity of its tale and the openness of its human portrayals.
Country: CHI
Technical: col 106m
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike, Tian Zhenda, Gao Enman
Synopsis:
In rural China a primary school teacher acquires a thirteen year-old substitute for a month, allowing him to visit his sick mother. The girl has no expertise but is tenacious, a quality she displays to an unlikely extent when she sets off in a search of an errant pupil in the big city.
Review:
In some ways reminiscent of The Story of Qiu Ju, this is at once a more realistic film, with its authentic cast, some of whom play their actual roles in this true story, and yet a more sentimental one. The scenes of coke drinking and of the TV company visiting the village sit uneasily alongside the otherwise unidealized view of life in modern China. Nevertheless, it is a film which wins over its audience through the simplicity of its tale and the openness of its human portrayals.