Completed - MANDARIN - Comedy - 139 minutes
A café proprietor spends a decade petitioning the Chinese legal system after being swindled by her ex-husband, in this caustically comic contemporary fable from superstar director Feng Xiaogang (Aftershock).
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Feng XIAOGANG Cast : Fan BINGBING, Guo TAO
Li Xuelian and her husband Qin Yuhe stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment. Six months later, Qin marries another woman. Furious, Li files a lawsuit, only to lose because the divorce complied fully with legal procedure. And then Qin accuses of her of having been “impure” at the time of their wedding… Over the following decade, Li travels every year to Beijing, confronting numerous absurdities on a quest to reclaim her reputation for the sake of her unborn child...
Country(ies) : CHINA
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Toronto - TIFF 2016 - Special Presentations (Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI))San Sebastian FF 2016 - Official selection (Golden Shell for Best Film/ Silver Shell for Best Actress)