BEIJING -- Jia Zhangke, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice for Still Life, told local media Monday that his next movie would focus on the end of the Cultural Revolution. Loosely translated as The Time of Tattoos, and based on a novel of the same name by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), Jia said the film will be set in 1975 in Suzhou, near Shanghai, at the end of the decade of social and economic upheaval set in motion by Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic. "I don't want to tell macro stories, I want to focus on the small alleys of daily life that show the pain people suffered due to (that period's) shortages, and how they were engulfed by the times," Jia told The First, a supplement to The Beijing Daily.
- 9/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BEIJING -- Jia Zhangke, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice for Still Life, told local media Monday that his next movie would focus on the end of the Cultural Revolution. Loosely translated as The Time of Tattoos, and based on a novel of the same name by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), Jia said the film will be set in 1975 in Suzhou, near Shanghai, at the end of the decade of social and economic upheaval set in motion by Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic. "I don't want to tell macro stories, I want to focus on the small alleys of daily life that show the pain people suffered due to (that period's) shortages, and how they were engulfed by the times," Jia told The First, a supplement to The Beijing Daily.
- 9/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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