Unknown pleasures
Synopsis
In Northern China, not far from Mongolia, two friends Xiao Ji and Bin Bin, apparently oblivious to the world around them, spend most of their time lounging about. Their main aim is to do as they please, which is to say, not a lot.
Intense Xiao Ji falls madly in love with beautiful Qiao Qiao, the region’s singing star. Bin Bin, who’s more reserved, tries to save his love affair with a young student in any way he can.
Xiao Ji brazenly cruises Qiao Qiao, despite her manager’s presence. This tough, possessive man also happens to be her fiancé. Xiao Ji is vaguely aware that he is playing a dangerous game, but he doesn’t care, for he wants the girl. He is beaten up in a nightclub one evening but comes out of it unscathed, apparently indestructible. Qiao Qiao is touched by his stubbornness mixed with an angelic side. Lonely and isolated, she accepts to sleep with him, just once, in secret.
As for Bin Bin, he applies himself to making more of a mess of his life with each passing day. He is rej...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (5)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : Lumen Films
- Foreign production companies : E Pictures, T Mark, Hu Tong Communication, Office Kitano
- Film exports/foreign sales : Celluloid Dreams
- French distribution : Ad Vitam
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Jia Zhang-Ke
- Director of Photography : Yu Lik Wai
- Editor : Chow Keung
- Sound Recordist : Yang Zhang
- Co-producer : Hengameh Panahi
- Press Attaché (film) : Matilde Incerti
- Production Designer : Liang Jiang Dong
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Mandarin
- Coproducer countries : Japan, China, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Japan, China, France)
