Spring in a Small Town
Xiao cheng zhi chun
小城之春
[1948 - Ķīna]



Režisors: Mu Fei
Žanrs: Drāma
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0189219/

Anotācija: The best Chinese-language movies of all time

The Hong Kong Film Awards Association recently voted obscure 1948’s movie Spring in a Small Town as the best Chinese-language movie in 100 years. ALLAN KOAY and MICHAEL CHEANG dig up some information on the movie and talk to several local filmmakers about the HKFA’s list.

Spring in a Small Town is widely considered the best Chinese movie ever made; yet for all its brilliance and critical acclaim, the black-and-white film made way back in 1948 remains largely unseen and unheard of outside of China.

The classic chamber drama, directed by Fei Mu, gained revived interest in 2002, when Chinese fifth generation filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Horse Thief, The Blue Kite) remade it as Springtime in a Small Town. Tian remained faithful to the original but with some minor additions and changes.

Fei Mu’s version is now poised to gain the popularity it never got back in its day, as it was voted the best Chinese-language movie in 100 years by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association recently.

The list was compiled for the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) ceremony, scheduled for March 27, and celebrating the first 100 years of Chinese cinema, which began in 1905 with China’s first film, The Battle of Dingjunshan.

The panel of judges – which included film directors, critics, scriptwriters, producers, actors and academics – were asked to list 20 of their favourite Chinese movies, and the films’ final rankings were decided by the number of votes they received.

Spring in a Small Town (known as Xiao Chen Zi Chun in Mandarin, and also sometimes known as Spring in a Small City) was joined in the top three by two Hong Kong films – John Woo’s action-genre-defining A Better Tomorrow and Wong Kar Wai’s Days of Being Wild, while Chen Kaige’s Yellow Earth and Taiwanese Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness rounded up the top five.

Oscar-winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee, only managed 10th place. Despite having several critically acclaimed movies under his belt, China’s leading director Zhang Yimou’s films were largely snubbed, with only 1987’s Red Sorghum and 1992’s Story of Qiuju making it into the list. Two of his more popular works – Raise the Red Lantern and martial arts flick Hero – were not included in the list.

Despite some frankly odd choices and notable snubs, critics have largely agreed that Spring in a Small Town deserves the top spot in the list because of its strong cinematic feel.

Author and film critic Leung Ping-kwan, who was on the panel of 100 judges who compiled the top 100 list, was quoted in an AP news report as saying that Fei Mu (1906-1951) was way ahead of his time.

Spring in a Small Town is the last feature film made by Fei Mu. Though the movie made little impact when it was released, it is still regarded as one of the best Chinese films ever made.

It revolves around the lives of a bored married couple living in a small town during the Japanese occupation of China. The husband, Dai Liyan, suffers from severe depression after losing his family fortune in World War II.

The couple’s life is turned upside-down when a young doctor, Zhang Zhichen, who is an old friend of Dai and ex-lover of Dai’s wife Zhou Yuwen, comes to visit. Later, Dai’s younger sister Dai Xiu falls in love with the charming doctor.



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