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Walking on the Wild Side

Lai xiao zi

China, France

2006

89 Min
Color
Mandarin
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DIR Han Jie

PROD Jia Zhangke, Natacha Devillers

SCR Han Jie

DP Wei Xu, Li Hongjian

CAST Bai Paijiang, Guo Qiang, Hou Jing, Lu Jie, Tian Zhaoting, Zhang Xingxing

PROD DES Liu Giang

Rotterdam: Tiger Award

Synopsis

Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province. A Chinese road movie, Walking on the Wild Side charts a young gang’s continuous flights from one kind of trouble to the next. Mirroring the stark and barren landscape, the film relays the grim story of these delinquents’ dreams of liberty and easy money. Played by nonprofessional actors who are real life troublemakers, the film offers a realism that is at once oppressive, cruel, and sympathetic. —asiasociety.org

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