Shower (1999) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Xizao (Shower)
Year
1999
Running time
92 min.
Country
China
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Genre
Comedy. Drama | Comedy-Drama. Family Relationships. Disability
Synopsis
When the film unfolds, Da Ming (He Zheng), who works in capitalism-oriented South as a businessman, returns to his family home in Beijing after being hinted that his elderly father (Zhu Xu) has passed away. Da Ming's father owns a traditional bathhouse which he runs with the help of his other son, mentally challenged Er Ming (Jiang Wu). Da Ming feels a little impatient after learning that his father is perfectly heathy. He immediately books a flight ticket and plans to go back. In the meantime, while his brother welcomes Da Ming lovingly, his father is remote and cold. Their separation is a result of different values, different life experience, and different generations.
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Awards
1999: Toronto Film Festival: International Critics Award
1999: San Sebastian Film Festival: Best Director
1999: Rotterdam Film Festival: Audience Award
2000: National Board of Review (NBR): Won Special Recognition Award (for excellence in filmaking)
2000: Satellite Awards: nominated to Motion Picture, International.
Critics' reviews
- "Comes as close to perfect as any movie I've seen lately."
- "Intimate, deeply affecting family drama."
- "Shower makes for a lovely and poignant journey."
- "Told in a leisurely though concise 92 minutes, Shower is a purifying and refreshing spray of hope that family and lifestyle differences can be reconciled. Lovely."
- "Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy."
- "Yang turns this heartwarmer into a feat of delicate magic."
- "he beauties of Shower lie in its human observation, in its funny interplay, candor, lusty acting and hearty simplicity - and also in its warm imagery and the fascinating symbolic use it makes of water."
- "You won't see a more humane and delicately moving riff this year on the theme of getting clean."
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