"In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a number of colorful adventures and characters. Director Zhang Yang's humorous and moving tale of friendship offers a powerful, and sometimes slapstick, commentary on the value of community and human connectivity in modern China."
Mandarin, with subtitles in English
Facilitated by Dian Li, of the University of Arizona East Asian studies department
Information from The Global Film Initiative
Audience: All, Large (101-500)
Manuel Pacheco Integrated Learning Center
Room: 130
Kate Mackay
Center for Education Resources in Culture Languge and Literacy, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, and International Affairs
kmackay@email.arizona.edu
http://www.international.arizona.edu/iew
