Chicago – Season Nine of Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) celebrated China on the week of September 15th, and brought in the writer/director Huo Meng to represent his film “Crossing the Border.” The drama of generations blends old and new China through the relationship of a boy and his grandfather.
During summer vacation, Ning Ning, a seven-year-old boy, is sent back to the countryside to be taken care of by his 70-year-old grandfather Li Fu-chang. While the two unfamiliar relatives are getting to know each other, the grandfather gets some news about an old friend, who has suffered a stroke and is dying. He decides to ride a motorbike with his grandson to visit the dying man, who lives thousands of miles away. The film is a meditation on generations and the acceptance and definition of death.
Chinese Film ‘Crossing the Border,’ directed by Huo Meng
Photo credit: AsianPopUpCinema.
During summer vacation, Ning Ning, a seven-year-old boy, is sent back to the countryside to be taken care of by his 70-year-old grandfather Li Fu-chang. While the two unfamiliar relatives are getting to know each other, the grandfather gets some news about an old friend, who has suffered a stroke and is dying. He decides to ride a motorbike with his grandson to visit the dying man, who lives thousands of miles away. The film is a meditation on generations and the acceptance and definition of death.
Chinese Film ‘Crossing the Border,’ directed by Huo Meng
Photo credit: AsianPopUpCinema.
- 9/23/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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