Someone To Talk To
/
一句顶一万句
director:
Liu Yulin
playwright:
Liu Zhenyun
genre:
Drama
region:
China
/
Hong Kong
language:
Mandarin Chinese
release date:
2016-11-04
(Release)
IMDb: tt6128848
一句顶一万句
overview
An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong.
The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society.
The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door God (2014) won a silver medal at the 41st Student Academy Awards and was selected by Cannes.