MidAfternoon Barks Chinese pinyin Xiw Gu Jio is a 2007 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuedong. The film was the first directorial effort for Zhang, who was previously an established theater director in Beijing.
The first of three stories told in MidAfternoon Barks, The Village and the Stranger, follows a herdsman Zhang Yuedong who has abandoned his flock for a village in the Beijing municipality. Taking residence with his roommate Qieli Dunzhu, he is asked by his landlord Gadi Qieli to install an electric metal pole in the courtyard outside their apartment. It becomes increasingly difficult to determine, however, whether the request was part of a dream or not, or indeed if the herdsman is even in Beijing.In the second tale, entitled City, Wood, Repairman, three workmen played by Han Dong, Chu Cheng, and Gouzi in the city are installing poles but to no apparent purpose. A seemingly unrelated but parallel story between a repairman Quan Ke and a young man the films composer Xiao He rounds out this part of the film. ........
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