Their paths diverge when Qiuyi escapes and hides out with her boyfriend, Lao Pu. But she is too strong-willed to tolerate the open disapproval of his mother and leaves the household to become a Buddhist nun. Li Shaohong's direction is full of romantic languor and stylization rarely found in mainland Chinese movies. Its account of China in the 1950s is vivid and believable, but this film is finally a woman's film about women.
Pay is nine months in arrears, and funding from the government is improbable.
An obvious parallel to Chen Kaige's King Of Children , but after much soul-searching by Wang, a strikingly different conclusion. This is a story of the loves and lives of three middle-aged Chinese women. Li Qing is a chief reporter with Consumer Times . The three have been good friends since school years but all have had different life experiences. Li's husband is a factory manager who loves his wife.