A Girl from Hunan

A Girl from Hunan also known as Girl from Hunan Chinese pinyin Xingn xioxio is a 1986 Chinese drama film directed by Xie Fei and U Lan. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, and was one of the first mainland Chinese films to be commercially screened in the United States. The film is based on a 1929 shortstory, Xiao Xiao or Hsiao Hsiao, by author Shen Congwen.

Left by her uncle in this remote village, Xiao Xiao is expected to be less of a wife than a mother to her new husband and lives under the domineering control of her motherinlaw. Now sixteen, Xiao Xiao catches the eye of a farmhand, Hua Gou played by Deng Xiaoguang. She lets herself be seduced by him and soon finds herself pregnant. Knowing that the traditional village still executes women for adultery, Xiao Xiao is desperate to abort the baby but fails to accomplish her goal.With her pregnancy clear, Xiao Xiao faces the wrath of her motherinlaw, only to be saved by the appeal of her young husband, who has grown to love his wife, though perhaps more as a motherfigure than a spouse. When Xiao Xiaos child, a boy, is born, her motherinlaw begins the process of marrying off the child to yet another adolescent girl. ........

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