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Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

1998, Movie, R, 100 mins

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl: Review

What about actress Joan Chen's prize-winning directing debut so angered the Chinese government that she has been entirely barred from working in China? Perhaps simply that the film — set in the 1970s during the waning days of the Cultural Revolution — makes a credible case against the excesses of Communist China, though Chen's uncompromising depiction of her naïve heroine's sexual exploitation probably didn't help matters. Xiu Xiu (Lu Lu), a city teenager from a lo... read more leave a comment