DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Gu Xiaogang
PRODUCERS: Song Jiafei, Suey Chen, Ning Xiaoxiao, Liang Ying  
PRODUCTION CO: Dadi Film, Qu Jing Pictures, Factory Gate Films
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yu Ninghui, Deng Xu
EDITOR: Liu Xinzhu
MUSIC: Dou Wei

WITH: Qian Youfa (Youfu), Wang Fengjuan (Fengjuan), Sun Zhangjian (Youjin), Sun Zhangwei (Youhong), Zhang Renliang (Youlu), Zhang Guoying (A-Ying), Du Hongjun (Mum), Peng Luqi (Gu Xi), Zhuang Yi (Jiang Yi), Sun Zikang (Kangkang), Dong Zhenyang (Yangyang), Zhang Lulu (Lulu), Mu Wei (Wang Wei)

FESTIVALS: Cannes

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REVIEWS

"Taking its title from a renowned 14th Chinese scroll painting by Huang Gongwang, this debut feature from Gu Xiaogang is a panoramic evocation of one year in the life of a provincial family.

In tribute to its artistic inspiration, the film often presents its action from a quiet distance, the camera lyrically moving across the frame as its central characters – the members of the sprawling Yu family, overseen by an aging matriarch (Du Hongjun), whose birthday celebration opens the film – deal with business and romantic entanglements, financial debts and work struggles. All the while the seasons inexorably change. 

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains was shot over the course of two years, and is the first in a declared trilogy of films about life along the Yangtze River – a first-time filmmaker’s labor of love that’s as accomplished as it is ambitious.”

– New Directors/New Films 2020

“Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a wide scope and ensemble cast yet feels minutely observed, lived-in, life-sized, and unhurried by anything beyond its own frame – a close cousin to the work of Edward Yang. When we look back at life along the Fuchun Mountains during the second decade of the 21st century, at how the landscape and the people changed, at how winter became spring became summer became fall and then winter again, and onward, we’ll have a peerless document in the movie… akin to the one recorded in wash painting on paper, created in and representing the same place 670 years before.”

– Eric Hynes, Film Comment ​

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FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS*

Hamilton     
Monday, 4 April, 8.00pm​

Wellington     
Monday, 11 April, 6.15pm

Auckland     
Tuesday, 26 April, 6.00pm

​*Non-members welcome by donation (notes only please)​

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Celebrate CONTEMPORARY CINEMA >>

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains 
(Chun jiang shui nuan) is presented in
​co-operation with the Confucius Institute, Victoria University of Wellington

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