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The Other Half
Series: New Directors/New Films [March 21 - April 1 2007]
Director: Ying Liang, Country: China, Release: 2006, Runtime: 111

Xiaofen lives in one of the dynamically growing cities in Southwestern China, but her work for a law firm interviewing clients and documenting their cases is merely routine. When not at work, she must deal with her down and out boyfriend, a drunk and a gambler and who’s now on the lam. Life is also hard for her girlfriends and her mother, and Xiaofen is increasingly distressed by what she witnesses around her. In his second feature film, director Ying Liang (Taking Father Home, 2005) playfully pits youth culture against more traditional ways and interrelates one woman’s reality to the changing economic and social structures in contemporary.

Ying Liang’s first feature, Taking Father Home, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at Tokyo’s FILMeX Festival in 2005. He duplicated the feat with The Other Half, his second feature, which won the Kodak Vision Award at the same festival in 2006.

Sat Mar 31: 3:15pm at the Walter Reade Theater
Sun Apr 1: 6:45pm at The Museum of Modern Art




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Sat Mar 31: 3:15 (WRT)
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