Father (2000 film)

Father Chinese pinyin Yunji Fz literally Feuding father and son is a 2000 Chinese film directed by the writer Wang Shuo. To date, it is Wangs first and only directorial effort. The film is based on Wangs own novel, Wo Shi Ni Baba English I Am Your Father. Despite being partially backed by the staterun Beijing Film Studio, Father suffered from years of bureaucratic red tape. Made in 1996, the film was not screened until 2000, when it surreptitiously premiered at the 2000 Locarno International Film Festival.

Father documents the tumultuous relationship between a widowed father, Ma Lisheng, and his schoolage son, Ma Che. Though he works as a lowlevel party functionary during the day, he finds his greatest challenges in the raising of a son on his own. Alternating between trying to bond with his son even getting drunk with him, and verbally accosting him, Ma is at a loss. One day the son decides that the best way for his father to stop harassing him, will be to find him a new wife, which he finds in the form of the mother of a school friend, Qing Huaiyuan.Never officially released in China, Father was not screened in the west until four years after its completion in February 1996. The film was smuggled into Switzerland for the Locarno International Film Festival by the festival director Marco Muller, and would go on to win that festivals top prize, the Golden Leopard. The festivals jury chairman, Naum Klejman described Wang Shuos film as not only a very important film in the context of new cinema, in China and all over the world, its also a film which gives a very human explanation of developing the societies in the world, its universal. ........

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