Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Movie Review 1997

To foil Chinese censors, first-time director Chen was forced into guerilla filmmaking (accounting for the film's somewhat rough look) in this moving effort set during the Cultural Revolution. In 1975, teenaged city girl Xiu-Xiu (Lu Lu) is sent down to a remote corner of Tibet to learn horse training from peasant Lao Jin (Lopsang). She expects only to be gone six-months but is instead stuck, forgotten, on the plains. In desperation, Xiu-Xiu begins to trade sexual favors in exchange for the chance to return home. Based on the novel "Tian Yu" (Heavenly Bath) by co-writer Geling. Mandarin with subtitles.

Distribution

A-PIX Entertainment Inc., 200 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., New York, NY 10016, Phone: (206)284-4700, Fax: (206)286-4433

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 99 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Period Piece: 1970s, China, Teen Angst

Screenplay

Joan Chen, Yan Geling

Cast

Lu Lu, Lopsang

Cinematography

Lu Yue

Director

Joan Chen

Music

Johnny Chen