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 loving family, is forcibly "sent down" to a remote rural work
camp to undergo political indoctrination. An exemplary worker, Xiu Xiu's special assignment takes her to the desolate Tibetan steppes,...
Released:
1998
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins