Fortune Teller
Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2009
Release Year: 2009
Story:
Half a lifetime alone, Li Baicheng is a folk fortune-teller. At the age of 40, he met a disabled Shi Pearl and two people began to live together. He lives by telling fortune in the northern urban-rural fringe. Most of those who come to him are prostitutes laden with anxiety. In the length of a long volume and in the form of traditional Chinese serial novels, the whole film shows the different states of social marginal figures.
Casts & Crews:

Xu Tong
Directors
Runtime:
129
minutes
Language:
Subtitles:
Chinese
Festivals & Awards:
2013 Tokyo Independent Film Festival, Japan 2011 Berlin Asian Film Video Art Festival, Germany
2013 Tokyo Independent Film Festival, Japan 2011 Berlin Asian Film Video Art Festival, Germany
Tags:
#morality
#complicated human world
#documentary
Director‘s Statement:
At the lowest limit of survival, living has no need for meaning.
But living tenaciously itself is the whole meaning of life.
But living tenaciously itself is the whole meaning of life.
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章回体结构是亮点,初识雁姐!
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现实的暧昧混杂
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Casts & Crews

Xu Tong
Director
Story:
Half a lifetime alone, Li Baicheng is a folk fortune-teller. At the age of 40, he met a disabled Shi Pearl and two people began to live together. He lives by telling fortune in the northern urban-rural fringe. Most of those who come to him are prostitutes laden with anxiety. In the length of a long volume and in the form of traditional Chinese serial novels, the whole film shows the different states of social marginal figures.