Dam Street (2005)

Original title

红颜

Directed by

Li Yu

Genre

teen film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in rural Sichuan navigates the quiet burdens of her past and her present. The film follows her everyday life and the relationships that bind her to her community.

melancholicslow-burnemotionalintimateobservationalrestrainedlyricalearthyunderstated

What happens

Dam Street (Chinese: 红颜; lit. 'Rouge face') is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Li Yu. Dam Street is Li's second feature film, after 2001's Fish and Elephant and was produced by screenwriter Fang Li's Laurel Films and Sylvain Bursztejn's French company, Rosem Films. Dam Street, shot mainly in Sichuanese Mandarin, follows the life of a young woman, Xiaoyun in a corner of China's central Sichuan province. The film premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival on September 8, and also received a handful of other showings at other festivals, notably Toronto (2005) and Deauville (2006). Lead actress Liu Yi is a notable Sichuan opera actress (Plum Blossom Award, 2007). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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