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EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be showing Zhuangzhuang Tian’s The Blue Kite on 29^th August, 2010(Sunday) at 10:00 AM.

Plot

On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head), is born. The Party is everywhere: Mao’s photograph, loud-speaker announcements, visits from the neighborhood committee. Shaolong dies in a reform camp; a close family friend, who protects Shujuan and her son partly out of guilt for lying to authorities about Shaolong, succumbs to malnutrition; a confrontation with the Red Guard leads to injury, imprisonment and death. Shujuan’s love for Tietou sustains her, and the child’s blue kite embodies hope: “I can make another for you,” says Tietou’s dad; by the end, Tietou promises this to a small child

Details for The Blue Kite

• Title: The Blue Kite
• Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
• Rating: 7.6
• Year: 1993
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama
• Color: Color

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