The Sun Also Rises (2007 film)

The Sun Also Rises Chinese pinyin Tiyng zhochng shngq is a 2007 film directed, produced and cowritten by Chinese director Jiang Wen starring Joan Chen, Anthony Wong, Jaycee Chan, and Jiang Wen himself. This movie is the polyptych of interconnected stories in different timezones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert. This movie was screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and nominated for Golden Lion but lost to Ang Lees historical thriller Lust, Caution. This film also premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, and was nominated for Achievement in Cinematography at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

In the first story, madness and mischief as a single mother Zhou Yun drives her devoted son Jaycee Chan to distraction with her daredevil antics in pursuit of tranquility. The agile mom climbs tall trees and stands perilously astride a small earthen raft on the river. She treasures a beautiful pair of slippers that she is forever losing, and the son fears that, one day, the footwear will remain while his mother disappears.In the second story, on a college campus, two old friends find their friendship tested by rivalry over a woman. Doctor Lin Joan Chen is the mistress of Old Tang Jiang Wen, but she finds herself drawn to teacher Liang Anthony Wong, who is catnip to beautiful women. When Liang is accused of groping women at a campus gathering, Lin offers her rear end behind a curtain to determine whose was the guilty hand. ........

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