Talented Catalan director Adrià Guxens has shown a deep understanding and love for the culture, the aesthetic and the people of China in his pre-pandemic short documentary “I Don't Think It Is Going to Rain” (2019), and in the following “A Distant Noise” (2023). His most recent “A Hacca Song” is the completion of an ideal trilogy, having in common with the previous two a sharp glance at the generational gap in China and the fast-growing divide between new China and old China.
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A Hakka song is also how the film introduces us to the rural village of Hekeng, in the mountainous areas in south-eastern Fujian, China. The singer is Wei Yi, a local woman who works as a tourist guide, accompanying visitors to admire the circular, enclosed and fortified earth building called “tulou”, unique to the Hakka of this area.
A Hakka Song review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
A Hakka song is also how the film introduces us to the rural village of Hekeng, in the mountainous areas in south-eastern Fujian, China. The singer is Wei Yi, a local woman who works as a tourist guide, accompanying visitors to admire the circular, enclosed and fortified earth building called “tulou”, unique to the Hakka of this area.
- 4/15/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Rice fields scream “China” to most people. However, rice growing is an integral part of the economy of few south European countries like Italy and Spain, and it is in the latter that the lush area of the river Ebro's delta is enveloped by more than 20,000 hectares of rice fields, making it a renown producer of excellent rice, one of the best in the country. Catalan director Adrià Guxens' deep understanding and love for the culture, the aesthetic and the people of China is back after his pre-pandemic short documentary “I Don't Think It Is Going To Rain”, delving once again into cross generational conflicts and destinies, with an added, very contemporary element of migration and distance.
“A Distant Noise” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
“A Distant Noise” pitches Jun (Junyi Sun), a young Catalan man of Chinese origin temporary working for the planting of rice,...
“A Distant Noise” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
“A Distant Noise” pitches Jun (Junyi Sun), a young Catalan man of Chinese origin temporary working for the planting of rice,...
- 7/29/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Spanish director and screenplay writer Mireia Noguera is one of seven female directors teaming up for Barcelona-based production house Corte A Films on the anthology “7 of Hearts.”
Corte A Films is in the financing phase of the film, which is the second project by Esteve Rovira and Gerard Quinto, who directed “7 Reasons to Run Away (From Society),” with David Torras. The film won the Audience Award at the Gaudis.
“Seven Reasons” featured seven darkly humorous stories revolving around protagonists that were detestable, proving the point that sometimes it is best to avoid other humans.
“This new film, ‘7 of Hearts,’ is also composed of seven stories, but what is special is that it will be directed by seven women,” Noguera tells Variety.
The film is written by Soler, who is also a playwright.
“‘7 of Hearts’ is a film made up of seven tales in which seven young female directors face the...
Corte A Films is in the financing phase of the film, which is the second project by Esteve Rovira and Gerard Quinto, who directed “7 Reasons to Run Away (From Society),” with David Torras. The film won the Audience Award at the Gaudis.
“Seven Reasons” featured seven darkly humorous stories revolving around protagonists that were detestable, proving the point that sometimes it is best to avoid other humans.
“This new film, ‘7 of Hearts,’ is also composed of seven stories, but what is special is that it will be directed by seven women,” Noguera tells Variety.
The film is written by Soler, who is also a playwright.
“‘7 of Hearts’ is a film made up of seven tales in which seven young female directors face the...
- 10/22/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Catalan director Adrià Guxens is such an Asian film buff that he decided to bridge his passion with a filmmaking career and his show-reel proves he is actively moving towards that goal; a Wong Kar-way homage, a Chinese commercial, an Asian Film Festival promo; one thing leads the other and after his first Asian short “Meiying Mg-01” in 2018, Adrià was offered a place in the Chinese scholarship “Looking China”, won the second price and was able to complete “I Don’t Think It Is Going To Rain”, shot in mandarin, between Shanghai and Zhujiajiao. He’s already jumped onto the next project, now in stand-by for Covid reasons and waiting to be restarted.
The megalopolis of Shanghai is surrounded by small, ancient river towns that are extremely pretty – like little Chinese Venices – and quietly sit on the thick net of rivers, affluents and canals enveloping the outskirt of Shanghai. They were once very quiet retreats,...
The megalopolis of Shanghai is surrounded by small, ancient river towns that are extremely pretty – like little Chinese Venices – and quietly sit on the thick net of rivers, affluents and canals enveloping the outskirt of Shanghai. They were once very quiet retreats,...
- 6/14/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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