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The Good Woman of Sichuan

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Sabrina ZHAO

  • Canada, China
  • 2020
  • Asian Premiere
  • 88min
  • 12 +
  • color

documentary / fiction / experimental / imaginary-self

SYNOPSIS

In an unfamiliar home-place, a traveling woman meets her imaginary self. By accident, she loses control of the camera and drifts into a polyrhythmic experience of stasis.​

 

PROGRAM NOTE

Bertolt Brecht¡¯s play The Good Person of Szechwan depicts the good and evil in a woman. The film The Good Woman of Sichuan is a variation of Brecht¡¯s play about two women¡¯s journey to Sichuan. The protagonist is a local theater actor preparing an adaptation of Brecht¡¯s The Good Person of Szechwan in Leshan, but she is helpless at the intersection between fiction and reality. Her friend recently lost her husband by accident. However, it¡¯s an only blend of fluid narratives, but from the beginning of the film, the intertitle states that this is neither an adaptation nor a work of fiction, except for some lines from the play. As director Sabrina Zhao only adapts some fragments from Brecht¡¯s play, The Good Woman of Sichuan collects peripheral moments by putting a camera at the brink of time and space of the two women. The rural landscape through the window of a passing train, movement of objects, people sitting on empty benches, and the riverbank of a flowing river... When the two women murmur about alienation and confusion in a voiceover for a few minutes, their ¡°fluid feeling¡± and identity are set in Leshan. As writing a diary in a dream, it crosses the borderline between documentary, fiction, and essay film. It resonates with ever-changing existence and multiplicity. It¡¯s the first feature film by Sabrina Zhao who comes from Chengdu. [KIM Somi] 

schedule

Code Time Theater Grade

Director

  • Sabrina ZHAO

    Sabrina (Ruobing) Zhao now lives between Chengdu, Abu Dhabi, and Toronto. She holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University Abu Dhabi, with concentrations in Film & New Media and Literature & Creative Writing. She likes to blend documentary, fiction and the experimental.

Credit

  • ProducerJames QIU
  • Cast Weihang HE,Sabrina ZHAO, Sherry WU
  • Screenwriter Sabrina ZHAO
  • Cinematographer Sherry WU
  • Editor Sabrina ZHAO
  • Music Kits SHPIRA
  • Production Design Sherry WU

WORLD SALES

James QIU / james.t.qiu@gmail.com