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BEIJING FLICKERS
Saturday, Mar 16, 2013 8:20 PM
China’s prosperity may have enriched some people, but not others, and certainly not San Bao and his friends. In the latest film from controversial filmmaker Zhang Yuan, the displaced youth of Beijing may be down and out, but they find solace in a makeshift family—one another. With short Shanghai Strangers.
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In the latest film from Sixth Generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan (Little Red Flowers; Beijing Bastards), the displaced youth of Beijing may be down and out, but they find solace in a makeshift family—one another. San Bao hasn’t spoken in 127 days, not since his girlfriend left him for a much richer man, his dog ran away, and he lost both his job and his apartment. Meanwhile, Wang Min drives expensive cars (as a valet for rich people) and worries his actress girlfriend will leave him, too. They form a community of outcasts, left behind by prosperity, and reminded of it every day. Zhang, whose film Beijing Bastards similarly captured the marginalized and ostracized of the city in the early ‘90s, uses the stories of current twenty-somethings to evoke a world in which artists may be starving, but they’re not wasting away.