Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy

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2011 / 72min.

Rating8

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East China), to re-paint again friends and relatives after several years have gone by. With a soundtrack by famed composer Lim Giong (Millennium Mambo, The Assassin).

Directors

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Actors

Liu Xiaodong

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