Dam Street

Dam Street Chinese literally Rouge face is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Li Yu. Dam Street is Lis second feature film, after 2001s Fish and Elephant and was produced by screenwriter Fang Lis Laurel Films and Sylvain Bursztejns French company, Rosem Films.

Dam Street tells the story of Xiaoyun, a sixteenyearold girl in Sichuan who discovers that she has become pregnant, shocking her family and community. When the school discovers the scandal, Xiaoyun and her boyfriend, Wang Feng are expelled, with Wang Feng being sent to a vocational school in another city. Xiaoyun, meanwhile, is screamed at by her mother, a teacher at the high school, and her boyfriends elder sister Wang Zhengyue, a nurse who also helps deliver her child.Together, the mother and sister lie to Xiaoyun, claiming the child died in birth, while actually arranging for his adoption across the river. Ten years later, Xiaoyuns life is at a standstill in the same small town. She makes a meager living as a singer in a local troupe but otherwise has never left. Eventually she strikes up a friendship with a tenyearold boy, Xiao Yong who becomes her closest confidante and defender in the community that scorns her. ........

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