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FEATURE FILMS
LE PROMENEUR D'OISEAU
I still don’t quite understand why, but ‘The Butterfly’ is incredibly popular in China. In 2009, I met 2 young producers in Beijing: Steve René (French) and Ning Ning (Chinese). The new co-production agreement between France and China had just been signed and they wanted to make a French-Chinese movie. I had visited China on a couple of occasions before, but very briefly. My knowledge of Chinese cinema was extremely limited. I did not know any Chinese actors or technicians and, more importantly, I could not speak a word of Mandarin. I should reasonably have declined the offer. However the appetite for challenge prevailed and I decided to take a leap of faith. I started learning the language and traveling in China… Initially, I wanted to do a remake of ‘The Butterfly’ (15 million people had seen the film in China… without it being ever featured in a movie theater). I quickly abandoned the idea and decided to write an original, China-specific, screenplay. Everything really began in 2010…
SYNOPSIS
After 18 years spent working in Beijing to pay for his son’s university studies, Zhigen, a Chinese peasant, decides to go back to his village in the south of the Guangxi region in order to fulfil a promise made to his wife. Before he left his village, she had given him a young bird to take care of and he had promised to bring it back once their son, Chongyi, would have finished his studies. But his wife died before that could happen. Today the bird is old, and Zighen announces his daughter-in-law that he is finally going to make the trip back to his village. His son Chongyi is now a famous architect and his wife is a business woman who spends her time air traveling. The couple only has one thing in mind: Material success. They are too busy to spend time with their only child Renxing, a temperamental and spoilt little girl. When her parents decide that she should accompany her grandfather, Renxing refuses. Still, she will be part of the journey, and will be forever be changed by the adventure…
CAST
MLi Baotian
Li Xiao Ran
Qin hao
Yang Xin Yi
PRODUCTION
Envision (Chine) et Pan Eurasia (France)
RELEASE
France: UGC (7 mai 2014)
Chine: STELLAR
INTERNATIONAL SALES
KYNOLOGY
FESTIVALS
Busan, Singapour, Djakarta, Palm Springs, Richmond, Riverrun (Prix du public), Seatle, Deauville, Valenciennes, Pékin, Panorama du Cinéma Français (Unifrance), Zlin (Golden Slipper), Melbourne, Taipei, Giffoni...
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