Film

Maiden Work

1997 · 1h 6m

IMDb

7.2

Another curve ball from the Beijing 'underground', Guangli Wang's debut feature first tells a story and then wittily deconstructs it. Painter Jinian, undergoing eye surgery for wounds received in a bar fight, remembers or imagines his relationships with student journalist Xue and her lesbian lover Yu. On recovering, he sets about trying to write and direct a film about the three of them. His meetings with potential producers, actors and technicians eventually get the project moving, but not quite as he foresaw it.

• Wang GuangliDirector

Release date

January 1, 1997

Status

Released

Original language

Chinese

Runtime

1h 6m