Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Xiaogang Gu | 2021 | 150MINS | Mandarin & Hangzhou Dialect
Overview
At her 70th birthday celebration, the aged mother of the Gu family suffers from a stroke, which precipitates her decline into dementia. Who will take care of her? The four brothers face crucial changes in their relationships to one another, as they deal with their own family problems. Their destinies, linked by love and challenged by questions and dilemmas, unfold over the course of the four seasons, as it would in an ancient Chinese scroll painting.
Director Profile
Xiaogang Gu
Gu Xiaogang, A native of Fuyang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, born in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province in 1988, graduated from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 2012 with a major in fashion design and marketing. He loves painting, film, and other arts. As a junior, he became obsessed with movies and began independent image creation, documentary filming, and advertising, A short story, and then participated in the tenth issue of Li Xianting Film Academy in Songzhuang. His main works include documentaries "Planting Life" and "The Believers". He currently lives in Beijing and studied in the director department of Beijing Film Academy. The planned long-roll film "A Thousand Miles of the East", the first volume of "Spring River Plumbing" was filmed in four seasons in two years, and was selected as the "Critics Week" at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the closing film.