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Starring: Huang Lu/Lv Yulai/Yao Anlian/Deshun Wang/Qin Wei/Bai Yanbo/Suo Yulan/Wildrokso

Country of manufacture: Chinese mainland.

Language: Mandarin

Release date: 2011-12-02

Duration: 93 minutes

Also known as Here, There/Ici, Là-Bas.

Synopsis Shanghai, Paris, Daxinganling,

Different places, different stories, but there is some connection.

Shanghai

Guoguang from the forest worked as a waiter in Lao Lu's restaurant and happened to meet the girl Xiao Xia. Just as their relationship became closer and closer, Xiao Xia died unexpectedly in a car accident. Guoguang is lonely. In order to fulfill Xiao Xia's last wish, he boarded the Oriental Pearl with his ashes.

Paris

Lu Hao, the son of Lao Lu, was studying in Paris and was stolen at night. In order to survive, he had to work, delivering takeout to the eccentric landlord Lao Liu every day, and gradually formed a friendship with him to spend his last time with Lao Liu.

Daxinganling

The traditional way of life is being impacted by modern society. As a deer breeder, this great change has taken place in the life of Brother Guoguang. He asked his wife and children to leave the mountains and live in the city, but he chose to stay in the mountains and continue his nomadic life for generations. Lu Sheng, a director in his early thirties, took part in many China films as a photographer after studying film in France. This time, he returned to China and directed his first film, here and there.

Here, it has been shown many times in Beijing. At the main creative meeting after the screening, Huang Lu, the heroine, admitted that she didn't believe that Lu Sheng could raise money to make this film, because from the beginning, there were a few literary films here. Who would like to be here, where, in the environment of domestic movies, the box office is the only thing? But in any case, Lusheng did it, and judging from a few literary films, the word-of-mouth and "box office" of Here and There are good.

Literary films that don't take the commercial cinema often fall into the trap of narcissism and incomprehension. I have met many young domestic directors who make "literary films". Most of them call themselves "artists" and often mention the "ideological connotation" in their films. From the film point of view, even the basic technology is not up to standard-in this frame of reference, it is inevitable to praise the land.

Related to the director's background of studying abroad, the behind-the-scenes production team of Here, There is also very international. The film selects three spaces, Daxing 'anling, Shanghai and Paris, which are connected as a picture, and there are connected by the blood of the characters. Compared with commercial films, although the plot is very light, there is no lack of accumulated tension under the calm narrative: the protagonist of Daxinganling is a stubborn deer breeder of Oroqen nationality, the Shanghai film takes a small noodle restaurant made by the family as the core scene, and the protagonist of the Parisian film is an old man and two China people. In three completely different spaces, the characters are subtly linked by blood and affection.

Lu Sheng said that what he wanted to shoot was "missing", which brought these irrelevant figures and time and space together. Judging from the three stories, on the contrary, the Paris chapter is relatively thin-the Daxinganling chapter depicts the persistence and loneliness of the characters quite in place, while the Shanghai chapter has the common edge of criticizing realism (although it is slightly deliberate). From beginning to end, the whole "here and there" has a strong sense of alienation. The so-called "missing" is rooted in the panic of homelessness. Deer breeders in Oroqen clung to their ancestors' lifestyles and moral concepts, but under the impact of modernization, even their wives and children had to abandon him. Boys and Sichuan girls came to Shanghai to work and struggle, but there was no place for them in this city. As for Paris, when the old landlord came to the cemetery of mercenaries in China, we could clearly feel the loneliness of falling in a foreign country and returning to the roots. ...

Here and there, of course, there is a strong personal color of director Lu Sheng. For this young man who grew up in an international metropolis (as they all describe Shanghai), studied in developed countries and received a good education, this homesickness must be closely related to his experience in studying abroad. It is worth noting that Here, There is mainly a young story that reflects the mentality of young people (the story of the old landlord is also interpreted from the perspective of young people). For these young people, they are like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, at the dawn of life. However, under the great impact of globalization and modernization, although they are young, their hearts have long been cast a shadow of homelessness.

The film is very light, but from the details of photography, editing, music and so on, "Here, There" rarely reflects the international style (considering the overall level of domestic films, especially domestic minority literary films, this is of course a compliment). The most rare thing is that although Lu Sheng is young, he has a good overall control over the rhythm of the film and is quite a master.