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Jan 5, 2003 · Into their lives during the next 25 years will come wave after wave of political hysteria, rendering all of their hopes and plans meaningless. "The Blue Kite" (1993) is nothing less than the attempt to show what it was like to live in times of ideological madness. Advertisement. The boy is called Tietou. The name translates as "iron head."
(3.5/5) Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/24/21 Full Review Audience Member Banned on release, and placing the director in hot water for a decade, The Blue Kite is still one of the ...
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- Lu Liping
- Zhuangzhuang Tian
- Drama
Jun 1, 1994 · TIMES FILM CRITIC. Of all the remarkable films to have come out of China over the past few years, “The Blue Kite” could well be the most authentic, the most accessible and, finally, the most ...
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2003. Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times. TOP CRITIC. The power of his film comes from its resolutely human focus. Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1 ...
The Blue Kite, a beautiful and courageous 1993 film by Tian Zhuangzhuang, describes the ups and downs in the lives of a young Chinese family from the early 1950's through the Cultural Revolution of 1966. The film, which has not been seen in China, deals with the social upheavals caused by the Rectification Movement, the Great Leap Forward, and ...
The narrator of The Blue Kite is Tietou (played by Yi Tian as an infant, Zhang Wenyao as a young boy, and Chen Xiaoman as an adolescent), whose 1953 birth occurs early in the film. His parents, librarian Shalong (Pu Quanxin) and teacher Shujuan (Lu Liping), are supporters of the Maoist revolution, but that doesn't prevent Shalong from being ...
Mar 25, 1994 · The Blue Kite: Directed by Zhuangzhuang Tian. With Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen, Liping Lü. The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
