About this event
FilmMy Mother's Rhapsody
萱堂闲话录
QIU Jiongjiong
106 min
2011
Documentary
Sichuanese Dialect
English and Chinese Subtitles
An eighty-year-old mother and her sixty-year-old son are aging in step, giving a salty and savory account of their epic life journey.
An eighty-year-old mother and her sixty-year-old son are aging in step, stumbling throughout their lifetime to defend their own opinions and natural gifts.
Director
QIU Jiongjiong (b. 1977, Leshan, Sichuan Province) is a Chinese contemporary artist and filmmaker. Since 2006, he has developed a distinctive cinematic language marked by vivid dialect dialogue, theatrical mise-en-scène, and stylized characterizations. The local history of Leshan and the history of his family, which has deep roots in traditional Sichuan opera, recur throughout his work.