Crosscurrent (2016 film)

Crosscurrent (长江图) is a 2016 Chinese romance film directed by Yang Chao (杨超), starring Qin Hao (秦昊)

Profile

• Movie: Crosscurrent / 长江图 (2016)
• Director: Yang Chao (杨超) 
• Writer : Yang Chao (杨超)
• Producer :  Ding Sheng (丁晟) , Du Yang (杜扬) 
• Cinematography : Lee Pinbing (李屏宾) 
• Original Music : An Wei (安巍) 
• Production Designer : Zhao Ye (赵晔)
• Release Date: September 09 , 2016
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• Genre : romance
• Language: Mandarin
• Country: China

Plot

Gao Chun, a young captain, steers his cargo boat up the Yangtze river. His father has recently died and, according to his beliefs, his son is now responsible for liberating his soul. At the same time, Gao Chun is looking for the love of his life. But all the women he meets in all the different ports are the same person: a magical being who grows ever younger the closer he gets to the source of the Yangtze. His trip up river turns into a journey through space and time. Gao Chun encounters people who accompany him for a while, and then loses them again. He comes across a town that had to make way for the big Yangtze dam only to reappear elsewhere. He hears the ghost story of a girl who crept into the body of a merchant. He enters a pagoda that reverberates with the voice of the Buddha from all sides. And he immerses himself in the verses of an unknown poet that reveal secrets from his past and make him contemplate his own crimes and their atonement. Yang Chao's odyssey merges daily life in China with politics and poetry, outer and inner worlds to create a magical universe.(http://www.berlinale.de)

Cast

• Qin Hao (秦昊)
  
• Xin Zhilei (辛芷蕾) 
• Wu Lipeng (邬立朋) 
• Jiang Hualing (江化霖) 
• Tan Kai (谭凯)
• Wang Hongwei (王宏伟)

Notes

• Entered into the 66th Berlin International Film Festival

Review 

• Lensed by acclaimed Taiwanese cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (In the Mood for Love and most recently The Assassin) the grace and compassion of his camera movements capture the beautiful and misery of Chun's journey, with shots ranging from the earthy to the stylised, providing a continuous shifting exchange between the past and the present. Source at : http://www.cine-vue.com
• Had it been content to remain a visual travelogue with nice-looking scenery, “Crosscurrent” would have been a pleasant, undemanding experience. Yet, Yang can’t leave the images alone, superimposing excerpts of poems on screen and pouring out incessantly dry, pretentious intellectual musings such as “I think just living is a sin” and “I treasure the purity of my soul.” (http://variety.com) 
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Trailer 

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