Zhang Yuan — Director (7)
Little Red Flowers (2006) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
看上去很美
director: Zhang Yuan actor: Bowen Dong / Ning Yuanyuan
other title: La guerra dei fiori rossi / Pequenas Flores Vermelhas
Liang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. His father deposits him at a well-appointed residential kindergarten in post-1949 Beijing, since his parents are often away. Life at the kindergarten appears rich and colourful, made up of a variety of cheerfully sunny rituals and games meant to train these children to be good members of society.
Mama (1990) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
妈妈
director: Zhang Yuan actor: Yan Qin / Huang Haibo
other title: 妈妈
Often cited as China’s first independent feature film, this low-budget drama, filmed largely in the director’s Beijing apartment, depicts the life of a single mother (a topic considered taboo at the time) caring for her mentally challenged son. Shot with a documentary aesthetic that includes interviews with families of mentally challenged persons, the film helped kick-start the Sixth Generation of filmmakers (including Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke) and their ethos of employing documentary realism to depict the true conditions of contemporary China.