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* '''Movie:''' Apuda<br />
* '''Chinese:''' 阿仆大的守候<br />
* '''Director:''' [[He Yuan]]<br />
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* '''Release Date:''' January 8, 2011<br />
* '''Runtime:''' 145 min.<br />
* '''Language:''' Mandarin<br />
* '''Country:''' China<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Apuda is meditative, slow, mesmerizingly beautiful ethnological/visionary documentary by young director He Yuan. He is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnography of the Yunnan Academy of Sciences. His film records--more than records, it transmutes into a virtual rural epic poem--the life of Apuda, an orchard farmer from the Naxi minority who live in southwestern China's Yunnan province. Apuda lives with his elderly bed-ridden father. The father is slowly slipping towards death. Apuda himself is the kind of extraordinary figure that many of China's independent documentary makers have been particularly fascinated by lately: he's mildly mentally disabled, though more than able to manage a singularly ordered and independent life of severe poverty. Apuda's language, too, is fascinating, as he talks largely to himself (and sometimes to his father, and very occasionally to rare visitors) with a distilled, articulate, quasi poetic voice whose every word one wants to hang on to.<br />
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Ghostly images of remarkable power loom out of near darkness, in an aesthetic that might remind Western viewers of Pedro Costa or even Alexander Sokurov. With an extraordinarily patient eye, He renders Apuda's daily routine with exquisite attention to minute details, so that changing his father's shirt, or preparing him a cigarette become powerful dramatic moments. This long film asks for an audience's patience, but more than repays it by offering a deep comprehension of dimensions of life and death rarely seen on film.[http://filmguide.viff.org/tixSYS/2011/films/3430 -- Vancouver International Film Festival]<br />
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==Film Festivals==<br />
* [[2011 (30th) Vancouver International Film Festival]] - September 29-October 14, 2011 - Dragons and Tigers *North American Premiere<br />
* [[2012 (41st) International Film Festival Rotterdam]] - January 25-February 5, 2012 - Signals: Hidden Histories<br />
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