Presented By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
LRCCS Chinese Film Series | Blue Sky Bones 藍色骨頭
The series is free and open to the public.
A film by Cui Jian; China, 2013; 101 minutes (Mandarin with English subtitles)
Cui Jian, one of China’s first rock stars, makes his feature debut with a story about history, family, music and politics.
“The hero of the tale is Zhong Hua (played by Yin Fang), an underground rocker who makes a living creating computer viruses and then selling anti-viruses to neutralize them. When an impresario asks him to launch the career of his girlfriend Meng Meng (Huang Huan), Zhong Hua reluctantly agrees to do a live web show, illegally hooking into a satellite dish for the needed bandwidth. It’s a criminal infraction of the law that echoes the crime his mother Shi Yanping (TV actress and model Ni Hongjie) committed in the seventies, leading to her exile in the country during the Cultural Revolution.
The song 'Lost Season', sung in various ways and rearranged as 'Blue Sky Bones' later in the film, is a clear reference to the "lost ten years" of the Cultural Revolution. Written by Cui Jian (who, it should be noted, opened for the Rolling Stones and Deep Purple in their Beijing concerts), it makes poignant contact with the writer-director's own troubles with the authorities, who have often banned his music in China.” Review by Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter.
During Winter Term 2016, the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies will present a series of cutting edge contemporary independent films from China.
Please note that access to Angell Hall and Auditorium A on Saturday evenings is only through the entrance on the east side of the building--called the Fishbowl--which faces the diag and the Hatcher Graduate Library. Usually only one door to the far left is unlocked.
Cui Jian, one of China’s first rock stars, makes his feature debut with a story about history, family, music and politics.
“The hero of the tale is Zhong Hua (played by Yin Fang), an underground rocker who makes a living creating computer viruses and then selling anti-viruses to neutralize them. When an impresario asks him to launch the career of his girlfriend Meng Meng (Huang Huan), Zhong Hua reluctantly agrees to do a live web show, illegally hooking into a satellite dish for the needed bandwidth. It’s a criminal infraction of the law that echoes the crime his mother Shi Yanping (TV actress and model Ni Hongjie) committed in the seventies, leading to her exile in the country during the Cultural Revolution.
The song 'Lost Season', sung in various ways and rearranged as 'Blue Sky Bones' later in the film, is a clear reference to the "lost ten years" of the Cultural Revolution. Written by Cui Jian (who, it should be noted, opened for the Rolling Stones and Deep Purple in their Beijing concerts), it makes poignant contact with the writer-director's own troubles with the authorities, who have often banned his music in China.” Review by Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter.
During Winter Term 2016, the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies will present a series of cutting edge contemporary independent films from China.
Please note that access to Angell Hall and Auditorium A on Saturday evenings is only through the entrance on the east side of the building--called the Fishbowl--which faces the diag and the Hatcher Graduate Library. Usually only one door to the far left is unlocked.
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