Director/writer/actress Qingge Gao is perhaps one of the gifted New Wave Chinese filmmakers on the scene today. Gao's Chinese-language short film Love, Song: My Brother is clearly indicative of how visionary, lyrical and committed a storyteller she is behind and in front of the camera. Highly accomplished and blessed with impressive film credits, the young revered artist had her extensive film training at such prestigious institutions as International Cultural Communication at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre, Loyola Marymount University (Mfa in Film Production) and The Ohio State University Columbus (BA in Film Studies and Theatre). Additionally, Gao has been recognized as Alibaba Pictures' "Top Ten Chinese Directors of North America." No doubt that Gao is vastly skilled in her filmmaking techniques and her miscellaneous short films...
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- 9/11/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Writer/director/actress Qingge Gao’s poignantly sedate Chinese-language romancer Love, Song (a.k.a Love, Song: My Brother) is a devoutly tender and expressive short drama about the identity of love and romance between lifelong friends grounded in the questionable blur of committed childhood friendship morphing into passionate young adulthood. Convincingly sweeping in the aura of distinct elegance and understated compassion and complexity, Gao’s poetic romantic drama paints a provocative if not puzzling picture of uncertainty pertaining to the obligatory “brother/friend zone”–just how flexible can a revered union created in sibling-induced closeness as carefree kids can actually transform into something seductively in-depth while testing the boundaries of unbridled companionship as amorous grown-ups? As a filmmaker with atmospheric flourishes of wistful imagination and visual vitality, Gao’s absorbing Love, Song is hypnotically structured in solid narrative...
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- 8/19/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Review by Peter Belsito
Under China’s One Child Policy, best friends with the same last name, Jiujiu Song and Dabao Song, a girl and boy from different families, grew up almost like siblings, now adults, they must reevaluate their feelings for each other.
In the short film Love, Song, under China’s One Child Policy, best friends with the same last name, Jiujiu Song (Qingge) and Dabao Song, a girl and boy from different families, grew up almost like siblings, and they developed a special bond throughout their childhood and teen years. Now, as an adult,Jiujiu is confused by her changing feelings for Dabao, which are shifting from sibling love to romantic love, but will Dabao feel the same about her?
During China’s One Child Policy, which was in effect from 1982–2016, families were permitted to have only one child. Having a sibling was something children born in...
Under China’s One Child Policy, best friends with the same last name, Jiujiu Song and Dabao Song, a girl and boy from different families, grew up almost like siblings, now adults, they must reevaluate their feelings for each other.
In the short film Love, Song, under China’s One Child Policy, best friends with the same last name, Jiujiu Song (Qingge) and Dabao Song, a girl and boy from different families, grew up almost like siblings, and they developed a special bond throughout their childhood and teen years. Now, as an adult,Jiujiu is confused by her changing feelings for Dabao, which are shifting from sibling love to romantic love, but will Dabao feel the same about her?
During China’s One Child Policy, which was in effect from 1982–2016, families were permitted to have only one child. Having a sibling was something children born in...
- 7/27/2018
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
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