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She, A Chinese

Xiaolu Guo

A feature film developed with Film Four and through the Sundance Writer's lab 2006

Mei, a young village woman, leads a monotonous life in her dusty hometown in rural China, but unfulfilled, she leaves for Beijing. Tragedy strikes there, and her restless nature compels her to England, where she drifts through a series of affairs...

"...stunning..." Dazed and Confused

"An unpretentiously sophisticated hybrid of documentary, creative writing, visual poetry and cinema." TIFF

"an absorbing character study of a young woman from rural China who makes her way to the big city" Hollywood Reporter

To find out about She, A Chinese at the Locarno International Film Festival where it won the Golden Leopard click here http://www.pardo.ch

For further press click on these links:

http://www.rfi.fr/culturefr/articles/116/article_83731.asp

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/p/2009-08-16/13072655799.shtml

http://www.infzm.com/content/33122

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/photos/stylus/109390-Day7_stitched.pdf

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/she_is_one_to_see_9O3Y1pK6oEaqdgZS6SAAcP

She, A Chinese review in the March Issue of Dazed and Confused :

Xiaolu’s graceful film follows the trajectory of an enigmatic young Chinese girl who escapes from her village backwater to the big city....soundtracked by a mixture of Chinese punk and PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish’s lush score. Guo, who is an acclaimed author as well as filmmaker, brilliantly explores ideas of alienation in China’s younger generation, leaving us with a wide-open ending that she says mirrors the unknown destiny of China: “Risky, mysterious and provocative.” Hannah Lack

An excerpt from the two page article on Xiaolu and She, A Chinese features in the Dazed and Confused Chinese New Year Supplement:

"She started as the ultra-passionate voice of Chinese art house cinema, and now director, novelist and poet Xiaolu Guo screens her fantastic feature debut She, A Chinese at the Prince Charles Cinema.
A ravaging road movie from China to London, the doomed love story won
the 2009 Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno fi lm festival. Published at 13, nominated for the Orange Prize with her first English-language book and now the winner of film awards, Guo is a mindmelting
talent. An exclusive midnight screening of Siu-Tung Ching’s 80s cult fantasy horror classic A Chinese Ghost Story tops off this exciting double bill."

4 Star review in Time Out

4 Star review in View London