DVD Review: Withered in the Blooming Season: Wang Guifeng, Xianqwen, Jiao Le, Wang Ren an, Cui Zi’en: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: Withered in the Blooming Season: Wang Guifeng, Xianqwen, Jiao Le, Wang Ren an, Cui Zi’en: Movies & TV

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Review
A Fassbinder inspired plot with Jean Cocteau s troupes… –UCLA Film and Television Archive

Product Description
Cui Zi en, the godfather of Chines cinema, blends melodrama and sadness to depict a one of a kind family utopia

Feng is a gay Beijing high school student who shares his home and room with his twin sister Wen. While never fully blown, his attractions toward his sister are non the less, obsessive. But Wen is now growing too old for his attentions and is ready to make a life of her own.
Enlisting his best friend (who just happens to be gay), Feng tries to involve his sister in a relationship that he can control. Yet his plan back fires in a series of ways that leads to an unexpected but wonderful conclusion.
Taking a page from Jean Coucteau, Cui Zi en, one of China s best young, gay film makers (Feeding Boys, Ayaya, My Fair Son) brings us a story about post-socialist, dysfunctional family life.

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A Family,

By Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas) -
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)

“Withered in the Blooming Season”

A Family

Amos Lassen

Director Cui Zi’en tells a melodramatic and sad family story in “Withered in the Blooming Season” (Waterbearer Film) and in doing so gives homage to the great French filmmaker Jean Cocteau. A twin brother and sister are involved in a relationship and they decide that they want to spend the rest of their lives together. Feng (the brother) discovers that his sister Wen is pregnant with his child, he asks his gay friend Le Le into taking the baby as his own.
The twins are young. Feng is a high school student and he and Wen share everything including a bedroom. His attraction to his sister is obsessive and he truly loves her, However Wen is maturing more quickly than her brother and she is ready to make a life for herself. Feng decides to involve his gay best friend into their relationship because he would be able to control it but he loses control of his own emotions and his plan doesn’t work to his expectations and he discovers that he is in love with Le Le.
Dysfunction only mildly describes this family situation. We watch as our three characters try to gain hold of their lives and the power that attraction has.
Cui Zi’en is noted for controversial films and that is probably the reason that he is regarded as one of China’s most important young filmmakers. Although far from perfect, “Withered in the Blooming Season” gives a great deal to think about.
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