Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.... (Full plot summary below)
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Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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| Film Journal InternationalPeter HenneEasily makes a beautiful landscape film, but it also poses a challenge to viewers. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA rigorous drama about the plight of a fifteen-year old girl during the Cultural Revolution in China. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesChen coats the traumatic moments with the same slick veneer she uses on the lighter ones, thus muting any effect they have on the audiences |
| User Reviewmeg rCompelling and cruel glimpse into Communist exploitation of youth. |
| User ReviewGS Jit is one of the GREATEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN... fantastic movie... It inspired me to go into film myself... |
| User ReviewPrivate UA captivating and terrible film, ostensibly a love story but much deeper and much, much darker. 'Xiu-Xiu' tells the story of a young girl who is slowly destroyed by a multitude of factors while her companion watches helplessly. This movie, more than any other, tells a story of true love, separate from romance, and, as such, is at once a terrible story of humankind's inhumanity to humankind and of humankind's limitless capacity for love and compassion. |
| User ReviewDon Hhard to watch at times but a great movie! |
| User ReviewDyllan RThe main actress Li Xiao Lu is a household name and face in China. More recognizable to most Chinese than the American President or Oprah. She has become one of the great comic actresses of her generation, believe it or not (if you have only seen her in this). She is a modern young woman in real life and by training yet all the gestures and expression in this film are acted, as the girls of that generation she is playing behave and express quite differently to Li Xiao Lu's generation, something we do not appreciate in the West and where, when we do similar (as in costume dramas) we do it so poorly, the actors with little or no knowledge of the past (the worst example to mind being the BBC series on the Pre-Raphelites, which was an absolute travesty of justice) we homogenize the past into our present moeurs of sex and violence and personality. This film therefore shows absolute tour-de-force acting by Li Xiao Lu, by any standard. The film has a whole symbolic meaning that reverberates through the drama. It is about the death of beauty and the consequent suicide of culture. Xiu Xiu is the perfect flower of her culture (of the past), of inward beauty (that might not be able to be appreciated by most Western eyes watching this). Portraying the inwardness of beauty is the triumph of Li Xiao Lu's unsurpassable acting. This beauty starts out in innocence, but gets sullied, then trampled on. The final scene (sorry to give it away, if you haven't seen the film don't read on) is the man (who in his way loves her) shoots her in the face with the rifle, to put her out of her misery, as you would an animal. Then he kills himself, because if you destroy beauty you destroy yourself. This is what China has been doing - what America leads the way on. The power of the ending is precisely because of the symbolic backdrop: it is beyond tragedy, I don't know what it is. Heartbreaking I guess. Joan Chen's achievement was in providing the frame for all this and the thought. She's a great woman. |
| User ReviewMaverick Ifantastically depressing & inspired the name of my favorite band xiu xiu. nothing is solved, nothing is different it's merely an expression of pain, just like the band . |
| User ReviewMickey FHoly fucking shit this is a good movie. True story. Amazing Direction. Even better actors. Top 10 best films I've ever seen EASY. |
