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A NEW OLD PLAY

JIAO MA TANG HUI

By Jiongjiong QIU

PARALLAX FILMS - as PROD

Biography - Completed 2021

The leading "clown" role in a renowned theatre troupe passes on, and is welcomed into the Underworld. As he relives his vivid memories one last time before entering the afterlife, fifty years of art, struggle and love play out against the background of 20th-century China’s tumultuous history.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2021
Concorso Internazionale Special Jury Prize
Busan IFF 2021
A Window on Asian Cinema
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Biography, First film, Historical
    • Countries
    • HONG KONG (CHINA), FRANCE
    • Languages
    • CHINESE
    • Duration
    • 179 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jiongjiong QIU
    • Synopsis
    • One evening in the 1980s, Qiu Fu, a leading clown-role actor in 20th-century Sichuan opera, departs this world and must reluctantly set off for the Ghost City under escort of two underworld officials.  Along the way, he meets old friends.  As they recall the past, earthly scenes creep into the mists of the Netherworld.

      Qiu Fu’s life in opera unfolds against the backdrop of a secular upheaval. The "New-New'' Troupe in which he grows up and learns his trade is affiliated with the military. As power shifts, the troupe is cast loose to wander rootlessly through a broken world. Despite this unsettled destiny, shaped by war, famine and political turmoil, Qiu Fu becomes one of the finest clown-role performers in Sichuan opera. And yet, one day he finds himself clapped in a pigsty as a political revolution rages outside.

      Outside the Ghost City, sitting among familiar faces, Qiu Fu drinks the mandatory bowl of Forgetfulness Soup to erase his memory. A lifetime of hardship, pain and sorrow, all vanish as if they had never been.
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