(Better late than never. Time to wrap up my series of reviews taking a look at the work of director Huang Jianxin, best known in the West - indirectly - for propaganda blockbuster The Founding of a Republic. I wanted to point out he's done quite a bit more than that, so here's some of his work that deserves more attention.)
Bureaucracy gone mad, the older generation victimising the younger, people clinging stubbornly to the past - Huang Jianxin's The Marriage Certificate has the kind of premise where if it turned up in a production from China's Fifth and Sixth generations or Taiwan's New Wave, you'd expect the Prc to get a mauling.
The plot ranges far wider than most of Huang's films - it still focuses on something very intimate (a relationship in danger of falling apart) but it draws a direct line from past events to a present gone wrong,...
Bureaucracy gone mad, the older generation victimising the younger, people clinging stubbornly to the past - Huang Jianxin's The Marriage Certificate has the kind of premise where if it turned up in a production from China's Fifth and Sixth generations or Taiwan's New Wave, you'd expect the Prc to get a mauling.
The plot ranges far wider than most of Huang's films - it still focuses on something very intimate (a relationship in danger of falling apart) but it draws a direct line from past events to a present gone wrong,...
- 6/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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