Little Red Flowers (2006)

Original title

看上去很美

Directed by

Zhang Yuan

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A four-year-old boy is sent to a strict boarding kindergarten where he must obey rules to earn little red flower rewards. His refusal to conform leads to conflict with the teachers and other kids.

childlikeoppressivepoignantslow-burnmelancholicobservationalunsentimentalalienating

What happens

Little Red Flowers (Chinese: 看上去很美; pinyin: kànshangqu hěn měi) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan. The film was a co-production between China's Beijing Century Good-Tidings Cultural Development Company LTD and Italy's Downtown Pictures. The Dutch company, Fortissimo Films handled worldwide sales. The film, based on author Wang Shuo's semi-autobiographical novel, Could Be Beautiful, follows a young four-year-old boy, Fang Qiang Qiang, at a kindergarten boarding school. Deposited into a world that demands conformity (rewarded by the titular little red flowers), Qiang suffers for his bullying. The film is Zhang's second adaptation of a novel by Wang, after 2003's I Love You. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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