Liu Jie’s ‘De Lan’ to screen for China Onscreen Biennial
The third China Onscreen Biennial, now entering its fourth week in Los Angeles, offers a rich and varied showcase of new Chinese cinema, curated with an eye toward shattering easy assumptions about one of the most complex and rapidly changing countries in the world.
On Sunday, the festival will present the North American premiere of “De Lan,” the latest film from Chinese director Liu Jie (“Courthouse on Horseback”). Winner of the best film prize at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, the movie tells a simple, resonant story of a young man (Dong Zi-jian, “Mountains May Depart”) escorting a woman through the mountains to an impoverished village in China’s Yunnan province, and learning any number of hard truths along the way.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive hosts “De Lan” as part of a double bill with the social satire “I Am Not Madame Bovary,” the latest collaboration between director Feng Xiaogang and actress Fan Bingbing.
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China Onscreen Biennial, Billy Wilder Theatre, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 206-8013 www.cinema.ucla.edu/events “De Lan” (2016). 7 p.m. Sunday.
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