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SHE, A CHINESE

By Xiaolu GUO

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Drama - Completed 2009

Chinese novelist Xiaolu Guo combines Indie US style and contemporary Chinese storytelling.
Mei, a young Chinese woman from the countryside leaves her so-called nest. Travelling from her village to London, she faces life, love and men without being scared.

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, CHINA, GERMANY
- Languages
- ENGLISH, MANDARIN
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Xiaolu GUO
- Cast
- Geoffrey Hutchings HUTCHINGS, Huang LU, Wei Yi BO
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-815B-0000-M-0000-0000-8
- EIDR
- 10.5240/BA00-0050-BE81-B20D-435A-D
- Producer(s)
- Natasha DACK (Tigerlily Films)
- Synopsis
- MEI, a young Chinese woman, leaves her monotonous village life behind for the excitement of the nearest big city. However, fired from her factory job, she falls in love with SPIKEY, a hit man whose own past catches up with him. A random decision finds MEI in London, where she marries an elderly man, MR HUNT. Soon bored and alienated by her new life, she has an affair with RASHID, an Indian immigrant who runs a local take away restaurant. She starts living with him in the backroom of the restaurant…