72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Single Man

Hao Jie
China
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In the mountainous village of Gu Jia Gou, 150 km from Beijing, men outnumber women. Some buy wives from faraway Sichuan province, sold to them by unscrupulous human traffickers. Other remain bachelors all their lives, like Lao Yang, Gu Lin, Big Head and Li Ruan. The four men are friends, they gossip and complain together, remember the days of their long-gone youth - yet find ways to have a sex life. Lao Yang is still in love with the girl he was forbidden to marry as a young man; she is now the middle-aged wife of the village head, but they sneak out for secret trysts. Yet, Lao Yang wants more? Hao Jie, a Beijing Film Academy graduate, shot his first feature in his hometown with non-professional actors (some of them his relatives). Single Man cast an unexpected, sympathetic and humorous look at the sexuality and romantic emotions of older peasants.
Director
Hao Jie
Screenplay
Hao Jie
Photography
Du Zhihua
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Hao Jie
Music
Er Housheng
Cast
Yang Zhenjun, Du Tianguang, Liang Youzhong, Liang Chunying, Ye Lan
Running Time
93 m.
Country
China
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