The Story of Qiu Ju
The Story of Qiu Ju

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A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most scenes.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Story of Qiu Ju:

Gong Li
Liu Peiqi
Liuchun Yang
Lei Kesheng
Ge Zhijun
Wanqing Zhu

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A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most scenes.

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The New York Review of Books - 10/10 by Jonathan D. SpenceThis is the first film I have seen from China that has at once such documentary verisimilitude, such comic inventiveness, and such reflective strength.
Time Out - 8/10 by Derek AdamsThe plot seems expressly designed to placate the bureaucrats who banned Zhang's two previous films in China, but the quasi-documentary approach (involving scores of non-professional actors, hidden cameras and radio mikes) is brilliantly finessed.
User Review - 10/10 by Wendy SZhang Yimou will always be my favorite director.
User Review - 10/10 by Jaeyoung LEven though I saw this 17 years ago, I still enjoyed re viewing it. There are a number of conflicts here in this film about rural country people and modern urban life, the government bureaucracy and the justice system in China, about male vs. female culture when it comes to conflict resolution and the choice of choosing your battles wisely vs. sticking to your principals or fighting for what is moral as opposed to what is just. I'd very much like to know what others thought of Qui Ju if they saw this film. I believe Zhang Yimou presented all these di lemmas in the film brilliantly.
User Review - 10/10 by Gerry OThis slow drama/comedy attacks the slow bureaucracy and stupidity existing in China under Communism. Yet there is so much more to this extraordinary film. Li Gong puts in an extraordinary performance as the determined wife, searching for an apology from the political leader who has wronged her husband. Despite an arbitration settlement of money whcih she rejects because she only wishes for an apology, there follows a long journey through the political and economic system which ends with unintended consequences. To top it all, she is pregnant, but her dogged persistence is what the viewer is focussed upon. Throughout the film the backdrop is the changing China. On the one hand you have the geography, mountainous regions indicating permanence and unchanging nature, on the other the city where small sacle capitalism providing goods and services is already entrenched. There is much in this that can make you laugh or cry, much to frustrate and much to give pleasure. A movie that can be watched, again, and again.
User Review - 10/10 by Sara PConstant Inspiration for me as a filmmaker.
User Review - 10/10 by Angie MLike "Nobody's Fool" this is a funny, sad, touching, profound film about ordinary people.
User Review - 10/10 by Private UAs a person who has lived in China for almost 15 years, this film speaks VOLUMES to me on life in China - the ambiguities and contradictions that are daily occurrences.
User Review - 10/10 by Cecilie GThe characters are so real and honest. A pleasure to watch. Gong Li rules.
User Review - 10/10 by Andrés MSi tuviera que seleccionar una película que resumiera la obra de Zhang Yimou, el más famoso de los directores de la quinta generación china, posiblemente elegiría Qiu Ju, una mujer china. Lo haría, no sólo porque la película es una obra maestra, sino porque en ella se encuentran la mayoría de los elementos que hacen interesante las películas de Yimou: 1. La actuación de Gong Li: Uno de sus mejores trabajos; increíble que una actriz con el talento suficiente para interpretar una terca campesina china o una sofisticada cantante en Shangai haya podido hacer una actuación tan desastrosa como la de ?Miami Vice?. No es un papel fácil el de Qiu Ju, no es un personaje que demande actuaciones estelares, sino pausas y silencios. Gong Li hace una actuación notoria interpretando a Qiu Ju, quien siempre pasa inadvertida. 2. La fotografía, más en la tradición del Neo-realismo italiano que en la de la nueva-ola francesa, Yimou decide filmar en las calles de China sin mayores pretensiones estilísticas. A diferencia de Godard, Yimou no filma lugares típicos y característicos de China, sino que muestra una ciudad (en realidad nunca sabemos dónde sucede la película) desde el punto de vista de una campesina que está viendo un mundo totalmente incomprensible para ella. La historia de Qiu Ju es rica en imágenes que pasan usualmente desapercibidas para quienes habitan grandes ciudades pero que impresionan a los visitantes rurales. Una valla con Arnold Schwarzenegger, jóvenes chinas con atuendos típicos occidentales y con maquillajes ajenos a la tradición de una aldea rural china. Las imágenes no nos presentan una ciudad, sino un conflicto; la batalla entre una China rural premoderna y una China urbana que busca occidentalizarse a toda costa. 3. Al igual que en Ni Uno Menos, Sorgo Rojo, Vivir, La Linterna Roja, El Camino a Casa, la heroína de la película sobresale por su tenacidad. Qui Ju arriesga continuamente su integridad física y económica con tal de lograr su objetivo, justicia para su esposo. Zhang Yimou es famoso por las múltiples dificultades que tuvo que superar para poder llegar a ser un director de cine, la leyenda cuenta que incluso tuvo que vender su sangre para poder comprar su primera cámara. A través de la tenacidad de sus heroínas, Yimou cuenta su propia vida. 4. Desde la filosofía del derecho, el tema es interesantísimo. Qiu Ju, logra en tres decisiones judiciales que el juez indemnice a su esposo, pero ella nunca queda conforme. Los jueces y funcionarios administrativos cumplen con su labor y penalizan al culpable pero no son capaces de lograr la reconciliación de los dos bandos. El conflicto se soluciona por un evento fortuito, el jefe le salva la vida a Qiu Ju cuando está dando a luz, pero justo cuando hay paz y armonía en la villa, las heridas vuelven a abrirse, el juez decide la cárcel para el jefe. La película termina corriendo para evitar la captura del jefe, pero ya es muy tarde. Para todos aquellos interesados en el cine de Yimou, Qui Ju, es sin duda una bella ventana a través de la cual se puede otear la grandeza de su arte.

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