WITHERED IN A BLOOMING SEASON

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Cui Zi en, the godfather of Chines cinema, blends melodrama and sadness to depict a one of a kind family utopia

Feng is a gay Beijing high school student who shares his home and room with his twin sister Wen. While never fully blown, his attractions toward his sister are non the less, obsessive. But Wen is now growing too old for his attentions and is ready to make a life of her own.
Enlisting his best friend (who just happens to be gay), Feng tries to involve his sister in a relationship that he can control. Yet his plan back fires in a series of ways that leads to an unexpected but wonderful conclusion.
Taking a page from Jean Coucteau, Cui Zi en, one of China s best young, gay film makers (Feeding Boys, Ayaya, My Fair Son) brings us a story about post-socialist, dysfunctional family life.

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Jaw-dropping moments of inspired drama ----Film Diary

A Fassbinder inspired plot with Jean Cocteau s troupes... ----UCLA Film and Television Archive

As much a passionate commentary on the definition of family in modern China as an offbeat melodrama ----Hong Kong Film Festival, 2006

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