I Love Beijing

I Love Beijing simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Xir nunyngyng literally The Warmth of Summer is a 2000 Chinese film directed by Ning Ying. It constitutes the third film in Nings Beijing Trilogy, a loose coterie of films detailing the rapid changes that have befallen Beijing in recent decades. In this final installment, a recently divorced cabdriver, Desi Yu Lei feels disconnected from the modern city of Beijing as he picks up fares around the city, all while engaging in a series of shortterm relationships with the various women he meets.

With each entry into Ning Yings Beijing Trilogy, the focus has been on a different generation the elderly in For Fun, the middleaged in On the Beat and now the youth in I Love Beijing. The film follows the twentysomething taxi driver Desi Yu Lei and opens on his divorce proceedings. Finding himself alone, Desi becomes something of a Casanova, and is soon dating a waitress, then a librarian, then a radio talk show host. Each woman, however, lacks something he desires. It becomes clear that despite his serial monogamy, Desi is really a romantic, and wonders when he will find the love of his life in the rapidly changing city he lives in.Like Nings earlier films, which were sometimes described as cinma vrit in both camera work and the use of nonprofessional actors, I Love Beijing uses a naturalistic filming style. This can be seen in the cinematography of Gao Fei, which Variety noted created casual yet revealing glimpses in long, seductive sequences that recall stylistically the work of Chantal Akerman. ........

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