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CHERRIES
Zhang Jiabei 2007
Categories: New Chinese Cinema
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Run time: 93 min. | China | Language: Mandarin
The narrative of CHERRIES revolves around the eponymous main character, a mentally handicapped woman married to a lame farmer in Yunnan in the early 1980s. Cherry longs to have a child, and when she stumbles upon an abandoned baby girl one night her dream seems to have come true. Her husband, however, is not so enthralled and quickly finds himself locked out of Cherry's affections. This beautifully shot film effectively draws viewers into a haunting, emotionally complex story from a side of Chinese life most of us only ever glimpse through a passing bus window. -- Dan Edwards
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About the film
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director
Zhang Jiabei
 
screenwriter
Bao Shi
producer
Mi Zi
Cast
Miao Pu
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Rated 3.0/5 Stars
rhizome
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With a cinematic style that turns narrative into narration, CHERRIES loses much of the affective impact delivered through its beautiful visual and audio registers. While it captures the grandeur of Yunnan, the camera also closes in on characters in long takes and still shots framing them in portraits to capture a significance that escapes the overwhelming natural, political, and economic landscapes in which they live. Indeed, the pristine landscape is stained with economic policies committed to the legacy of Mao in which a lame farmer, Ge Wang, and mentally handicapped woman, Cherry, struggle to survive. But survive they do through the new affections they have for a baby, Scarlet, whom Cherry stumbled upon and adopted. Unfortunately, the film mostly progresses through the words of a mature Scarlet reflecting on her mother's life. The use of narration to develop the storyline runs opposite to Cherry's life which proceeds through gestures and not words. While possessing much potential, the film ultimately simplified its emotive effects by retreating from the affects of image and sound to the bland securities of speech.
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