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Wangliang's Ideal

Forum of Independents - Competition 2011 / Wangliang de lixiang / China 2010

Although butcher Wang Liang has been living with his wife Li Qiao for several months they have yet to consummate their marriage. Young Li Qiao is more interested in her university entrance exam than in having sex. A film about two ordinary people’s unfulfilled ideals set against the backdrop of China’s headlong urbanization, which promises more than it can deliver.

Wangliang's Ideal Wangliang's Ideal

Synopsis

Summer 2009, a mountain village in southern China. Although a simple and honest butcher named Wang Liang has been living with his wife Li Qiao for several months, they have yet to consummate their marriage. Young Li Qiao is more interested in her university entrance exam than in sex because if she gets pregnant her dream of studying will be lost. Wang Liang can no longer bear the situation but Li Qiao is adamant. She moves to the city to try to start a new life, but her husband refuses to accept her decision.... Director and screenwriter Xiongjie Gao has shot a picture about two ordinary people’s unfulfilled ideals, a reality shared to a certain extent by numerous inhabitants of contemporary China. Told in the style of an old ballad, the story shows the hardships of living in a rapidly developing country. The headlong urbanization is a tempting opportunity for many but also a danger because the dreams it offers don’t always come to fruition.

About the film

119 min / Color, HD CAM
European premiere

Director Xiongjie Gao / Screenplay Xiongjie Gao / Dir. of Photography Jia Guo / Music Zhaoji Tong / Editor Fang Li / Producer Xuemei Wang / Production Beijing Sea+Original Film & TV Culture Co., Ltd / Cast Ye Fang, Huihua Tang, Yibo Hu / Contact Beijing Sea + Original Film & TV Culture Co., Ltd, Smiley Film Sales

About the director

Xiongjie Gao

 Xiongjie Gao is a writer and director. He teaches film and television education at university, and many exceptional writers and directors have appeared in China today thanks in part to his contribution. Xiongjie Gao himself has only recently become an independent director. Wangliang’s Ideal screened at festivals in Pusan, Hong Kong, and Beijing. The director said about his protagonists: "Li Qiao is not really indifferent, and Wang Liang not really incapable. They are paying the price for the [loss] of conscience in the process of urbanization.” He dedicated his story to "those ordinary people who [have] been struggling with the weakest voice and strongest desires. […] I hope that more people in the world can watch the film and that more attention can be paid to those who are less fortunate and more easily forgotten.”

Contacts

Beijing Sea + Original Film & TV Culture Co., Ltd
1#22-03, Oulujingdian, No172 Beiyuan Road, Chaoyang District, 100101, Beijing
China
Phone: +86 135 012 136 47
Fax: +86 108 485 359 3
E-mail: [email protected]

Smiley Film Sales
, 1142, Auckland
New Zealand
Phone: +64 936 003 25
Fax: +64 963 001 63
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Xiongjie Gao
Film Director

Xuemei Wang
Producer

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