Shun li and the poet 2011 letterboxd your life in film. Driftless area dvd movie buy it now at cd universe. Outside rome, there is a factory almost entirely outfitted by immigrants working to pay off their debt to the brokers who brought them to italy. Two outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker andrea segre. The story focuses on shun li tao zhao, who worked in a textile factory at the film s beginning strides, but who moves from china to italy with the help of a broker who managed to get her to come into italy. Toni erdmann is a 2016 germanaustrian comedydrama film directed, written and coproduced by maren ade. However, their relationship begins to stir discontent in the local community.
Collect bonus rewards from our many partners, including amc, stubs, cinemark connections, regal crown club when you link accounts. But the local fishermen who like to drink there arent nearly as accepting of their differences. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at. City of women, originally released in 1980 to a rough reception at. Cinecitta luce consulate general of italy hkiffs hong kong international film festival society humanities italian cinema italian cultural institute in hong kong italian film week italian films italy poet rai cinema shun shun li and the poet xml zetema zhao tao festivals. Among them is shun li tao zhao, a chinese woman in her 30s who saves her earnings in hoping to send for her young son who remains in china. Want to recommend a film we shouldnt miss at the 20 icff.
Io sono li shun li and the poet the fundy film society. Sep 11, 2012 a few minutes ago the european film academy efa announced the titles of the fortyseven 47 films on this years selection with films that will be considered for a nomination in the european film awards. I was reminded of when i watched the heart is deceitful above all things 2004, a wonderfully ugly film starring two other equally campy and notoriously bland disney faces, the sprouse brothers or as theyre better known, zack and cody. The pub is the hangout of the local fishermen, including bepi, a handsome old slav immigrant nicknamed the poet. Shun li and the poet director 2011 first snowfall director 20 the order of things director 2017. In 2010, he directed his first fulllength fiction film, shun li and the poet. Since the time of the great director, federico fellini, italian films have transcended national theatres to bring the world some of the finest cinematic productions in existence. In my opinion, explorers creates that sense of discovering something new about films. The festivals global classroom program is a point of introduction for the next generation of cinema lovers. Best foreign movies on netflix new foreign movies on netflix. Bepi is from the former yugoslavia, and even after 30 years in venice hes still something of an outsider.
Shun li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of rome, in order to get her papers and enable her eightyearold son to come to italy. The ninth annual boulder international film festival affectionately known as biff will be held here february 1417. Chinese communities, states within states and other exceptional papers on every subject and topic college can throw at you. Where and how to watch shun li and the poet movie on kodi. Jun 26, 20 5 films to watch at the italian contemporary film fest. Jul 16, 2015 with roughly equal portions of pretense and ambition, the end of time, a new exploratory compilation of visionary footage from canadian filmmaker peter mettler, serves up a hefty slice of the imponderables for those of us who appreciate cinema thats willing to risk confounding its audience or simply shooting blanks in its quest for a grand statement. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small town along the venetian lagoon. Shun li is a single mother working to pay off chinese gangsters who helped her emigrate to italy and are holding her. Io sono li is a 2011 italian drama film directed by andrea segre.
An unlikely friendship forms in a venetian pub between a chinese immigrant working as a bartender and a transplanted yugoslavian known as the poet. Bepis nickname is poet, and shun li tells him of chinas greatest poet, qu yuan, whose birthday is observed every year by floating candles on water. Separated from her eightyearold son, her heart is slowly breaking. Shun li zhao tao is a thirtysomething single mother from china who has come to italy in the hope of providing a better life for herself and her son. Complete list of titles available on dvd for nontheatrical screening. Watch the trailer for shun li and the poet one of the things that draws the two together is a shared sense of coming from somewhere else. Unlike so many films on this subject, shun li and the poet actually believes in the inherent decency of strangers. Shun li and the poet, the charming and moving film about friendship, is out now in cinemas and on curzon home cinema. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing shun li and the poet near you. In august, it is the meaford international film festival in canada and the furman film series in north hempstead, usa that welcome the.
Get your swag on with discounted movies to stream at home, exclusive movie gear, access to advanced screenings and discounts galore. Watching the performances was more than satisfying. After working in a textile factory in the suburbs of rome, shun li moves to the small. Io sono li shun li and the poet 20 rotten tomatoes. Download shun li and the poet 2011 full movie hd video. A skilfully acted, subtle film, shun li and the poet succeeds in giving a human face to immigration and the sacrifices made by foreign workers across europe in the hope of giving their families a better life. In chiaggio, where shun li is working as a bartender and waitress at a local cafe, she meets bepi, or as his friends call him the poet because hes always making up rhymes.
Superbly portrayed by rade sherbedglia, bepi is a kindly retired fisherman, recently widowed, who likes to hang out at the cafe with his friends. It also took out the 2014 whitehead award at the th annual international film festival. However, shun li has partnered with an unscrupulous employment agency that shifts her from job to job and makes it. She works in china and occasionally europe, and has appeared in 10 films and several shorts since starting her career in 1999. In 1975, he won the pulitzer prize for distinguished. Peter bradshaw finds much to savour in a poignant film about an unhappy young woman transported to italy by her chinese gangmasters. Andrea segres io sono li literally i am li, but released in english as shun li and the poet went directly from the 2011 venice film festival to the cinema farnese in romes. The chinese poets day of birth is celebrated each year by way of taking candles. The friendship between shun li and bepi upsets both the chinese and local communities, who interfere with this new voyage, which they are perhaps simply too afraid of. Shun li and the poet two outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker andrea segre.
Boulders answer to the gatherings at cannes, sundance, and telluride is a community event that packs presidents day weekend with workshops, music, celebrities, and, of course, lots and lots of movies. Io sono li shun li and the poet andrea segre directed his first full length drama after a career in documentary filmmaking. The italianista is a new and proud supporter of canadas very own italian contemporary film festival. Shun li shares with bepi stories of qu yuan, chinas most celebrated poet, and the. Shun li works in a textile factory near rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from china to italy, while saving money so she can bring her young. Shun li and the poet had you reaching for a dictionary of superlatives to describe this profound, understated film of the season, so far which was beautifully acted and very moving.
She is suddenly transferred to chioggia, a small cityisland in the veneto lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Mar 15, 20 women are dreamlike figures in the films of federico fellini, more often than not blessed with dreamlike figures themselves. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Shun li and the poet directed by andrea segre available. Miller foundation, oregon arts commission, chipotle, and others, the festival will screen a number of this years selections for high school students and teachers at special weekday times in the whitsell auditorium. Shun li and the poet is a surefire heartwinner, and marks sigre as a name to look out for. Film stills 3rd millennium bc andre segre cdata cine italiano. When you hear that shun li and the poet concerns the experiences of a chinese immigrant in contemporary italy, you will almost certainly prepare yourself for a litany of atrocities.
New to the fishing village of chioggia, italy, chinese migrant worker shun li zhao tao waits tables at a restaurant and dreams of reuniting with her son. A film of few words, shun li and the poet is a touching and beautifully handled portrait of two displaced loners, winningly played by chinese actress tao zhao and croatian old hand rade serbedzija. Shun li and the poet english subtitled shun li works in a textile factory near rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from china to italy while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. The 20 rank em as you see em thread dvd talk forum. Six years ago, lodis sophoan sorn created the san joaquin international film festival. Sedona film fest delves into heart, soul of filmmaking. Io sono li aka shun li and the poet or li and the poet earned zhao tao best. A first fiction film presented at the venice film festival 2011.
Marco paolini and rade serbedzija in io sono li 2011 tao zhao in io sono li 2011 io sono. For example, i watched a film called shun li and the poet pictured above with my school in the ifi and i discovered that even though the film had barely any action in it, it was still very interesting because of the plot and the conflict in the film. Io sono li shun li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of rome, in order to get her papers and enable her eightyearold son to come to italy. Now at the janet leigh theatre in stockton, the festival is bringing a celebration of cinema from germany, france and beyond to the valley.
Jan 17, 2017 we are left with a largely sincere study of loneliness and its consolations. After two dull hours broken only by sparse moments of. Shun li and the poet with images foreign film, cinema. Shun li, in effect, informs bepi of qu yuan who is the greatest of chinese poets. Shun li and the poet io sono li by andrea segre artekino festival. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. A tender, delicate friendship grows between shun li and bepi. Jul 16, 2015 the world of foreign and arthouse cinema has its fair share of poets. She befriends slavic migrant worker bepi the poet upsetting the small venetian neighborhood. Bepi and shun li strike up a friendship despite the disapproval of the local italian and chinese communities shun li and the poet, the first full length drama by documentary film maker andrea segre, is a restrained and sensitive depiction of an encounter between different cultures. Opening this week top box office coming soon to theaters weekend earnings certified fresh movies.
Bepi and shun li talk to one another and share photos. Shun li and the poet, director andrea segres film which won the 2012 edition of the european parliament founded lux prize in support of european cinema, will be projected in italy for the first time ever in video description within the context of the 24th trieste film festival. Bepi is a poet too, and an immigrant into the bargain. In the 20 countries with the most efa members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list.
Italian english subtitles a visually stunning story about two strangers who meet in a fishing village on the outskirts of venice. Announcing the summer 20 series gold coast arts center. Zhao tao, best known as the chinese star of movies by jia zhangke, plays shun li, a reserved and unhappy young woman who has been transported to italy by her gangmasters and must work in a bar to pay off a loanshark debt. Shun li and the poet crosses the atlantic lux prize. Shun li and the poet watch on netflix directed by andrea segre. Roger ebert was the film critic of the chicago suntimes from 1967 until his death in 20. Zhao tao plays chinese immigrant shun li, doomed to drudgery in a venetian harbourside bar until her gangmaster will pay for her eightyear. Directors like apichatpong weerasethakul have taken the mantle as some of films most challenging and experimental auteurs, but all truly pale in comparison to the obtuse blitzkrieg that is director carlos reygadas impenetrable and utterly breathtaking meditation on the human condition post tenebras lux.
She is best known for her collaborations with her husband, director jia zhangke, including platform 2000 and still life 2006. Shun li and the poet is a beautiful yet sad tale that illustrates it. There is much to savour in this poignant film about an unhappy young woman transported to. Faced with a cultural divide, shun li and bepis fates are different, yet their story is a captivating one. The first dramatic feature from documentary filmmaker andrea segre, shun li and the poet is an elegant, subtly affecting saga of the friendship between a. The blacklist tv series 20 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Il sangue verde 2010, mare chiuso 2012 and indebito 20. A study of the friendship between a chinese woman and a fisherman who came to italy from yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small cityisland in the veneto lagoon. In 2011 she starred in the italian film shun li and the poet by andrea segre, which screened in the venice days section of the 68th venice international film festival. What you thought about shun li and the poet film responses. Shun li and the poet shun li and the poet trailer facebook.
Zhao won the david di donatello award, the italian oscar, for best actress for her bilingual role. Zhao tao born 28 january 1977 is a chinese actress. Shun li and the poet is a detailed examination of an encounter between different cultures and portrays normally hidden realities shun li zhao tao, winner of the 2011 david di donatello for best actress, a chinese immigrant in her thirties who. All movies, old or new, that i see for the first time in 20 green is theatrical trainspotting 1996 the good, the bad, and the ugly 1966 safety not guaranteed 2012. However, shun li has shun li and the poet a study of the friendship between a chinese woman whos working in italy and an older italian man. He is also a foreigner, almost thirty years have passed without him returning to yugoslavia. It is more like their souls are bond together in some remarkable fashion. She is transferred to work at a pub, where she meets bepi, a handsome old slav immigrant nicknamed the poet. Rolling out the 20 lineup begins at noon saturday, when shun li and the poet comes to the screen at the mary d. Zhao tao won the 2012 david di donatello for best actress for her performance as shun li. Bepi the croatian rade sherbedgia, a fisherman called the poet for his ability to improvise a rhyme, on the other hand, knows what it means to not have any roots. For a complete interactive film schedule grid and a list of. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Bepi, a slavic fisherman, nicknamed the poet by his friends, has been a regular at that.
Shun li works in a textile factory near rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from china to italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. Sorn says the yearly event is a festival for the san joaquin community and allows locals to see perspectives from around the world. With shun li and the poet 2011, she became the first asian. Shun li and the poet is a more thoughtful and refreshing romantic film. The friendship between shun li and bepi upsets both the chinese and local communities, who. Shun li and the poet io sono li, the festivals showcase film to be screened on february 9, features the moving relationship between a young chinese immigrant and a disillusioned poet in. Jun 23, 20 towards the end of world war z, our hero gerry brad pitt is sneaking past a zombie thats rhythmically thumping its head against a wall.