A film for a badly damaged region
A Chinese rock musician will team up with two directors to shoot a film set in the central Chinese province that was devastated in May by a massive earthquake that killed 70,000 people.
Chinese rocker Cui Jian, Hong Kong director Fruit Chan and South Korean filmmaker Hur Jin-ho will collaborate on “Chengdu I Love You,” fashioned in the same vein as similar city-themed films such as “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I Love You,” Beijing-based Zonbo Media said in a statement Wednesday. The company said the three would shoot segments about family, friendship and romance.
Known as China’s godfather of rock, Cui won fame in the late 1980s with songs that voiced the hopes and anxieties of a generation entering adulthood after the death of Mao Zedong and the end of orthodox communism. For several years he was banned from performing in China.
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