Bachelor Mountain
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- Movie: Bachelor Mountain
- Chinese: 光棍
- Director: Guangyi Yu
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- World Premiere: March 28, 2011 (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
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- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
For the solitary lumberjacks of Heilongjiang's Changbai mountain range, located in the extreme northeast of China, life has become almost unsustainable. New environmental regulations protecting exhausted forests have forced most of the local men out of work. Meanwhile, the allure of better jobs in nearby cities has led to an outflow of local women. The result is a “bachelor mountain” populated by legions of lonely, impoverished, single men.
San Liangzi, an unemployed logger and jack-of-all trades, has been divorced for 12 years. He seems naive, sweet, almost simple-minded in his obsessive crush on a young woman named Meizi, for whom he does unpaid chores and construction work at her family's inn. She seems aware of his affections but, for reasons of her own, won't reciprocate. She is tough and ambitious: she's building an “environmental tourism” inn with Meizi's help. When it is finished, she welcomes busloads of the new young urban middle-class Chinese tourists, who try to commune with nature through ritual fire-dancing and singing.-- Vancouver International Film Festival
Film Festivals
- 2011 (35th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 20 - April 5, 2011 - Humanitarian Awards for Documentaries *World Premiere
- 2011 (30th) Vancouver International Film Festival] - September 29-October 14, 2011 - Dragons and Tigers *International Premiere
- 2011 (12th) TOKYO FILMeX - November 19- 27, 2011 - TOKYO FILMeX Competition
- 2012 (41st) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 25-February 5, 2012 - Signals: Hidden Histories
- 2012 (13th) Jeonju International Film Festival - April 26-May 4, 2012 - World Cinema
