The Road Home, Sunday June 15, 2008

This weekend we’re screening “The Road Home”, a Chinese production that won 12 awards including the 2001 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival as well as 4 other nominations.

“In the simple, small-scale love story The Road Home, Zhang Ziyi proves in her film debut what a powerhouse force she is on-screen, even while wearing braids and playing a vulnerable teen with a crush.” Mike Clark, USA Today

The Director

“Zhang Yimou’s childhood was a difficult one in terms of his family political and economical situation. These difficulties were to set the stage for a lifetime of struggle against Chinese officials. Yimou was in secondary school when the Cultural Revolution started in 1966. He abandoned school and worked as a laborer on a farm, and then in a textile mill (much like the one portrayed in Ju Dou). After the Cultural Revolution, Yimou became a photographer, buying his first camera in 1974. Many of his photos were published in local periodicals, including the Shaanxi Daily.

In 1979, Yimou entered the Beijing Central Film Academy (China’s only film school) after a long struggle to be admitted. His initial applications were summarily rejected because he was older than the regulation application age. He was accepted only after a personal appeal to the Minister of Culture, who accepted Yimou after viewing his portfolio of photographic work. Yimou studied at the Central Film Academy until 1982, focusing on cinematography. In 1982, Yimou graduated as a member of China’s Fifth Generation of filmmakers. The fifth generation is the first to have studied western film forms, and to grow away from the standard communist use of film strictly as a propaganda tool.”

Show Information:
Date: Sunday, 15 June 2008
Time: 06:00 PM

Venue: Punjab Lok Rahs
Flat # 8, Third Floor, RB1, Awami Complex
Garden Town Lahore.
042 5940166, 0333 4320802

Click here for directions and a map.

Cheers,
Team
Punjnad Film Club