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Bliss (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) VCD

Xu Tao (Actor) | Fruit Chan (Actor) | HE QIN (Actor) | Sheng Zhimin (Director)
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Bliss (VCD) (Hong Kong Version)

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Those who are familiar with Hong Kong independent films must have heard of Fruit Chan. In 2006 he produced Beijing director Sheng Zhimin's second feature film Bliss, which won the Netpac Award at the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival and was officially selected for many other festivals. Having worked with Fruit Chan as screenwriter for Durian Durian and assisted other famous Chinese directors like Jia Zhangke, Sheng Zhimin skillfully details the frustration in marriage experienced by a Mainland Chinese family in Bliss.

Retired security guard Old Li, whose wife left him a long time ago, is about to marry divorcee Zhang. Meanwhile, his son's busy schedule leaves little time for his wife, who thus finds pleasure in extra-marital affairs. Zhang's son is a gangster and his girlfriend works as a nightclub girl to make more money. Sharing a similar human touch with Fruit Chan's films, Bliss ably portrays ordinary people who mature through confusion and mistakes, amidst the rapidly changing morality and values of Mainland China.

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Product Title: Bliss (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) 浮生 (VCD) (香港版) 浮生 (VCD) (香港版) 浮生 (VCD) (香港版) Bliss (VCD) (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s): Xu Tao (Actor) | Fruit Chan (Actor) | HE QIN (Actor) 徐濤 (Actor) | 陳果 (Actor) | 何琴 (Actor) 徐涛 (Actor) | 陳果 (Actor) | 何琴 (Actor) Xu Tao (Actor) | 陳果（フルーツ・チャン） (Actor) | HE QIN (Actor) Xu Tao (Actor) | Fruit Chan (Actor) | HE QIN (Actor)
Director: Sheng Zhimin 盛志民 Sheng Zhimin Ｓｈｅｎｇ　Ｚｈｉｍｉｎ Sheng Zhimin
Producer: Wang Lan 王瀾 王澜 Wang Lan Wang Lan
Release Date: 2007-05-29
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): VCD
Duration: 90 (mins)
Publisher: Intercontinental Video (HK)
Other Information: 2VCDs
Package Weight: 120 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004843664

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榮獲「盧卡諾國際電影節」最佳亞洲電影
提名「多倫多國際電影節」最佳導演獎

監製 陳果‧鄭振邦
導演 盛志民
主演 廖忠‧王瀾‧徐濤‧何琴‧賀興泉‧關江歌

《浮生》貫徹陳果電影風格，揭示大時代的降臨與社會的變遷，催化家庭關係的劇變……退休護衛員老李妻子早年隨人出走，正準備迎娶失婚的張老師；老李兒子建軍婚姻亦亮起紅燈，因他忙於工作，太太竟紅杏出牆。另一邊廂，張老師兒子趙雷是個聯群結黨的叛逆青年，女朋友為了錢到夜總會出賣色相。兩個碎裂的家庭湊合在一起，誰料竟因老李收到前妻的骨灰而產生微妙的變化，疏離的關係有了磨合的契機…

This is a story about a family living beside a river. Lao Li is a retired police officer, he decides to marry Xiue, but suddenly his ex-wife returns in a surprising way. Jian-jun is the only son of Li, the disappearance of his mother left him living in a shadow. Without charming look or figures, Jian-jun's wife Xiao-hong sometimes wonders why the handsome Jian-jun insisted on marrying her. Xiue's son Lei is a typical trouble-maker, he meets a girl who thinks that she has found her love, however Lei actually has no idea of what his feeling is. Life is like a nonstop river, people in this story seem to grasp something inside their hearts at a particular moment in their live. Is it JOY? or is it SORROW?

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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10 (1)

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December 18, 2007

This customer review refers to Bliss (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Cycle of Life Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
To categorize this movie is to put it in a box labeled 'kitchen sink drama of difficult life styles and the nature of mortality'. Its all about split and fractured family relations and of individual concerns and welfares of marriage, crime, love, industry, confusion, death, urbanized architecture - hallmarks here of a quite stoic life drama, set in the central urban city of Chongqing. Mainly the plot circulates around one family group living together by the Chongqing river, a retired policeman Li (played by He Xingquan) and his wife Zhang (Guan Jianagge) and Li's two sons, Jianjun (Liao Zhong) a taxi driver and newly married and Xiaolei (Xu Tao), a recently released prisoner for crimes of gang hooliganism. The plot plays out in a laconic and seemingly laid back manner. These main characters flow into segmented and abruptly changing scenes, that become more fractured as the film progresses, and as each of the family members become more entrenched by increasing awareness of mortality and self fragility.

Its fascinatingly photographed, especially by the urban city scenery of Chongqing and the industrialized grey high rise towering buildings with their lightly misted back drops - forming quite a serene type of monochromatic aesthetic. Contrasting this are the modern interiors of public places, as modern technologies merge into the stark crumbling buildings of the high rises, reflecting the characteristics of the family here. Old and modern merge into one by this film's historical camera work, capturing an ever changing China with Chongqing as representation here. The scenes where you can see a cable car drifting silently down towards the main city hub are breath taking, too, and give such a sense of a wide space and air amidst the gray. Maybe this aspect of the film provides the 'bliss" in the title, where the sense of beauty is perceived amongst the skyline and clouds, as the cable car descends towards the city. Xiaolei, after being released from prison, works with a girl as a controller of these cable cars and eventually forms a relationship with her (aside to the street gang he remains with), which then becomes one of the fractured stories in this film.

Moments of this film also have sporadic and seemingly mindless episodes of violence - as when Xiaolei is attacked by his own gang in a cable car and when Xiaolei, himself, tries to force a sexual relationship with the nightclub girl he meets - all revealing blocked emotions, unbridled at sudden junctures of frustration. It features art school elements by symbols, where for instance one interesting shot is of Jianjun smoking a cigarette by a railing, with a factory chimney belching smoke in the immediate background. Both indicating the health hazards of modern existence.

A difficult movie to recommend this, by its tough somber issues and there is little in the sense of light relief here. "Bliss" is totally ironic in its title, even though strange visual beauty is showcased and can be felt by Chongqing's stark serenity. But this is no doubt a good solid social commentary movie worth looking into. The parts acted here are all performed as 'real people' as well. Hard and gritty, and if this is your sort of film its certainly recommended. But if not, this may not be your cup of tea.
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