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FilmMadame
姑奶奶
QIU Jiongjiong
120 min
2010
Documentary
Sichuanese Dialect
English and Chinese Subtitles
Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of coarse language, sexual language
In the night, he was the flamboyant, dignified, mean, timid, malicious, snobbish, bashful, unfortunate, amorous, matriarchal and bullheaded Madame Bilan de Linphel. In the day, he was FAN Qihui, a talented tailor and fashion designer in the capital city. FAN was a fast talker and a regular visitor of the gay strongholds — parks and bathhouses — in search of romances, encounters, flirtation, sex, dinner dates… Fan said he was born to love men.
In FAN's eyes, his parents were unfortunate; his childhood, insecure and boring. When he grew up, Fan funded his journey to Guangzhou on the meager income he earned as tailor. He went to realize his dream: to be a highly sought-after “prostitute” … Indeed, he ran across some men who had left their indelible marks on him, whether it was in Beijing or in Guangzhou. He was young at the moment.