WEIRD WAVE
 
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I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, GREECE, CYPRUS
 
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Completed - MANDARIN - Comedy - 139 minutes

Log Line

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

Synopsis

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...

Production

Country(ies) : CHINA

FRANCE Jul 05, 2017 HAPPINESS DISTR
GREECE WEIRD WAVE
HONG KONG EMPHASIS VIDEO
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
LITHUANIA KINO PAVASARIS
THAILAND SAHAMONGKOLFILM
USA Nov 18, 2016 WELL GO USA, IN


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Festivals and Awards

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)


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