Spring in a Small Town
Spring in a Small Town

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- 73/100 based on 3,225 votes
  • Released: 1948
  • Runtime: 94 mins
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  • Studio: Wenhua Film Company
  • Genres: Romance - Drama

Following WWII and with China brought to it's knees by the actions of the Japanese, prior to the rise of the Communists, led by Chairman Mao. This is the time during which Fei Mu's film takes place. Wei Wei plays a woman who lives a lonely life, shackled by her care for her gentle, but ill husband (Shi Yu)- that is until her first love reappears into her life. This is Fei's penultimate film as director, but is still enjoyed by many today as one of his best works. It has now b... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Spring in a Small Town:

Wei Wei
Li Wei
Cui Chaoming
Zhang Hongmei

Full Plot Details

Following WWII and with China brought to it's knees by the actions of the Japanese, prior to the rise of the Communists, led by Chairman Mao. This is the time during which Fei Mu's film takes place. Wei Wei plays a woman who lives a lonely life, shackled by her care for her gentle, but ill husband (Shi Yu)- that is until her first love reappears into her life. This is Fei's penultimate film as director, but is still enjoyed by many today as one of his best works. It has now been a firm favorite of many since it was restored in the 80's by the China Film Archive and some rate it as one of the greatest Chinese movies in history.

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The Skinny - 10/10 by Sam LewisThe film's emotional complexity lends it a weight that has sustained its influence over the decades.
Irish Times - 10/10 by Tara BradyThe unadorned, pre-institutional storytelling makes for a far more compelling viewing than Tian Zhuangzhuang's 2002 glossy remake.
Independent (UK) - 10/10 by Geoffrey MacnabThere is an eerie, ghostly quality to Fei Wu's classic 1948 melodrama.
Guardian - 10/10 by Peter BradshawIt is a powerful, yet exquisitely subtle emotional drama, something to be compared with Ophüls, or Mizoguchi, or with a Hollywood studio picture by Douglas Sirk or an early David Lean.
Little White Lies - 10/10 by David JenkinsMu ... creates extra hits of pure emotion through silky camera movements and the melancholy manner in which he frames his conflicted characters against the unforgiving landscape.
Total Film - 10/10 by Philip KempOne of the finest Chinese movies ever made, lauded for its utmost delicacy and subtlety.
Film Threat - 10/10 by Phil HallSpring in a Small Town uses this schematic to build a tight, emotionally tense triangular drama that questions fidelity, suppressed emotions and the balance of love and responsibility.
The Arts Desk - 10/10 by Tom BirchenoughFor its concentration of haunting emotion and sheer subtlety of texture, Spring in a Small Town is a masterpiece.
Times (UK) - 8/10 by Kate MuirFull of subtle erotic tension, the 1948 drama focuses close up on Yuwen (Wei Wei), a frustrated, exquisitely beautiful housewife whose husband Liyan (Shi Yu) is invalided by tuberculosis and the traumatic effects of the Sino-Japanese war.
User Review - 10/10 by Gordon IThe power is not in the understated romance or the compelling drama (although they are both magnificent), but more in the calm and poetic language of the film. Scenes flow together naturally, linked by an extremely likable narrator, and the filmmaker seems dedicated to capturing the tenderness between characters. The movie is not like other highly sympathetic films; it doesn't grab you by the throat, but rather allows you to ease yourself into the lives of this strange little family, and you do so with ease and pleasure. On a side note: it is clear that the actual physical film has not been well cared for, and there are some very obvious spots of damage and mistreatment, but this is easy enough to ignore.

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