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Wang Chao, Tsieina/Ffraince - China/France 2006, 88 mins
Beautifully directed, faultlessly performed, Wang Chao's third feature has a generosity of spirit and a general sense of melancholy that combine to offer an emotionally satisfying experience and provides a piercing insight into contemporary China. A country schoolteacher comes to the city in search of his missing son. He is helped by a kindly policeman and by his daughter, who struggles to keep from him the sordid reality of her job as a ‘comfort girl' in a trendy karaoke bar. But her boss and lover, the bar-owner, is well known to the cop.
Winner of Un Certain Regard for Best Film Cannes Film Festival 2006
First screening in Wales
"With its themes of filial disillusion and urban malaise . . [this] . . is reminiscent of a classic Ozu melodrama" Edinburgh Film Festival
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Wedi'i chyfarwyddo'n hyfryd, gyda pherfformiadau di-fai, mae trydedd ffilm nodwedd Wang Chao yn rhoi cipolwg treiddgar ar y Tsieina gyfoes. Mae ysgolfeistr o'r wlad yn dod i'r ddinas i chwilio am ei fab sydd ar goll. Fe'i gynorthwyir gan blismon cyfeillgar a gan ei ferch, sy'n awyddus i beidio â datgelu iddo natur ei gwaith mewn bar salw. Ond mae ei chariad, sef perchen y bar, yn adnabyddus i'r plismon.
Enillydd y ffilm orau yng Ngwyl Ffilmiau Cannes 2006
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