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- Yes, the film is being selective - 'All my stories take place in summer', Monkey tells us - but it picks and chooses what mattered to a generation who supposedly grew up like this. In the Heat of the Sun does criticise this generation, but in a hauntingly oblique, roundabout fashion.
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"In the Heat of the Sun" (alternatively translated as "The Day the Sun Shone Brightly") is among the first "6th generation" mainland Chinese films. Instead of focusing on the negative aspects of Mao Ze Dong's drastic cultural changes, Jiang Wen looks at these years through the eyes of the children growing up through the turmoil.
In the Heat of the Sun is a 1994 Chinese film directed and written by Jiang Wen. [1] The film is based loosely on author Wang Shuo 's novel Wild Beast . In the Heat of the Sun was Jiang Wen's first foray into directing after years as a leading actor.
Time Out says. Actor Jiang Wen 's first feature is a archetypal rites-of-passage film about a group of boys entering puberty one hot summer in Beijing: fooling around, showing off and bonding,...
Mainland Chinese star Jiang Wen (“Red Sorghum,””Hibiscus Town”) makes an engaging directing bow with “In the Heat of the Sun,” a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age pic set in Cultural...
Ostensibly a nostalgia film about the Cultural Revolution's "good old days", this film is much more: a self-consciously post-modern, post-"fifth generation" dismantling of the modern Chinese realist film; an ironic, romance-drenched interrogation of the possibility of eros and passion in a totalitarian era; and a meditation on the traps and ...
May 25, 2018 · In the Heat of the Sun 阳光灿烂的日子, the directorial debut of Jiang Wen 姜文, is about the unique experiences of a group of privileged youth who grew up in Beijing's government- and military-related courtyards in the early 1970s during the Cultural Revolution.
