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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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