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Dai Sijie is a Director and Scriptwriter Chinois born on 2 march 1954 at Chengdu (Chine)
Dai Sijie (Chinese: 戴 思 杰, pinyin: Dài Sījié; born 1954) is a Chinese–French author and filmmaker.
In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune and Tang, le onzième. He also wrote and directed an adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He lives in Paris and writes in French.
His novel, Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée (Once on a moonless night), was published in 2007.
L'acrobatie aérienne de Confucius was published in 2008.
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Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. He grew up working in his fathers tailor shop. He himself became a skilled tailor. The Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he was able to complete high school and university, where he studied art history.In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune and Tang, le onzième. He also wrote and directed an adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He lives in Paris and writes in French.
His novel, Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée (Once on a moonless night), was published in 2007.
L'acrobatie aérienne de Confucius was published in 2008.
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Night Peacock (2016)
Directed by Dai Sijie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Leon Lai, Liu Yifei, Liu Ye
Rating42%
The film is set in Chengdu, China and in France.
, 1h45Directed by Dai Sijie
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Mylène Jampanoï, Li Xiaoran
Rating65%
Set in China in the 1980s or 1990s, the film tells the story of Li Ming, a young orphan of the Tangshan earthquake, who leaves to study at the home of a renowned botanist. A secretive man and commanding father, he lives on an island that he has transformed into a luxurious garden. Anxious to share this solitary life, his daughter, An, welcomes with joy the arrival of the female student. Soon their friendship develops into a sensual, but forbidden attraction. Incapable of separating themselves, Ming and An create a dangerous arrangement to be able to continue spending their lives together: Ming marries An's brother, who is a People's Liberation Army, PLA soldier and cannot bring his wife with him. However, An and Ming's relationship is discovered by the botanist who has a heart attack when he finds out. Before he dies, he tells police that it was his daughter and daughter-in-law's homosexuality "disease" that killed him. Thus, An and Ming are sentenced to death by a court and executed.
, 1h51Directed by Dai Sijie
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors 周迅 (Zhou Xun), Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Wang Hongwei
Rating71%
The film is set in a period between 1971 and 1974, during the later stage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Two city boys in their late teenage years, Luo Min (played by Chen Kun) and Ma Jianling (Liu Ye), are on their way to a remote village in the mountainous Sichuan province for re-education. Upon arrival, the boys are questioned on their "reactionary backgrounds" by the Chief (Chen Tianlu), the village leader, in the presence of the other villagers. Luo's father turns out to be a dentist who had once fitted a false tooth for Chiang Kai-shek, while Ma's father is a doctor. The Chief also examines the boys' luggage and burns a cookbook, which he claims to be bourgeois. He is about to throw Ma's violin into the fire as well before he is stopped by Luo, who lies that the Mozart's Divertimento KV 334 Ma plays is a "mountain song" titled Mozart is Thinking of Chairman Mao.
The Moon Eater (1994)
, 1h20Directed by Dai Sijie
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Chick Ortega, Mohamed Camara, Catherine Hiegel, Rufus, Geneviève Fontanel, Yann Collette
Marcel, l'idiot du village, se plait à se transformer en épouvantail pour attirer les oiseaux. Il quitte la ferme familiale à la veille du mariage de sa mère. Il fait la connaissance de Popov, un clown russe noir qui fait partie d'un cirque familial en tournée européenne, mais qui vient de rater le départ du cirque pour l'Italie et prend le train pour le rejoindre. Les deux hommes vont se tenir compagnie pendant trois jours. Mais le corps de Marcel gonfle au moindre contact avec le maïs...
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Night Peacock (2016)
Directed by Dai Sijie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Leon Lai, Liu Yifei, Liu Ye
Roles Writer
Rating42%
The film is set in Chengdu, China and in France.
, 1h45Directed by Dai Sijie
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Mylène Jampanoï, Li Xiaoran
Rating65%
Set in China in the 1980s or 1990s, the film tells the story of Li Ming, a young orphan of the Tangshan earthquake, who leaves to study at the home of a renowned botanist. A secretive man and commanding father, he lives on an island that he has transformed into a luxurious garden. Anxious to share this solitary life, his daughter, An, welcomes with joy the arrival of the female student. Soon their friendship develops into a sensual, but forbidden attraction. Incapable of separating themselves, Ming and An create a dangerous arrangement to be able to continue spending their lives together: Ming marries An's brother, who is a People's Liberation Army, PLA soldier and cannot bring his wife with him. However, An and Ming's relationship is discovered by the botanist who has a heart attack when he finds out. Before he dies, he tells police that it was his daughter and daughter-in-law's homosexuality "disease" that killed him. Thus, An and Ming are sentenced to death by a court and executed.
, 1h51Directed by Dai Sijie
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors 周迅 (Zhou Xun), Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Wang Hongwei
Roles Novel
Rating71%
The film is set in a period between 1971 and 1974, during the later stage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Two city boys in their late teenage years, Luo Min (played by Chen Kun) and Ma Jianling (Liu Ye), are on their way to a remote village in the mountainous Sichuan province for re-education. Upon arrival, the boys are questioned on their "reactionary backgrounds" by the Chief (Chen Tianlu), the village leader, in the presence of the other villagers. Luo's father turns out to be a dentist who had once fitted a false tooth for Chiang Kai-shek, while Ma's father is a doctor. The Chief also examines the boys' luggage and burns a cookbook, which he claims to be bourgeois. He is about to throw Ma's violin into the fire as well before he is stopped by Luo, who lies that the Mozart's Divertimento KV 334 Ma plays is a "mountain song" titled Mozart is Thinking of Chairman Mao.
The Moon Eater (1994)
, 1h20Directed by Dai Sijie
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Chick Ortega, Mohamed Camara, Catherine Hiegel, Rufus, Geneviève Fontanel, Yann Collette
Roles Writer
Marcel, l'idiot du village, se plait à se transformer en épouvantail pour attirer les oiseaux. Il quitte la ferme familiale à la veille du mariage de sa mère. Il fait la connaissance de Popov, un clown russe noir qui fait partie d'un cirque familial en tournée européenne, mais qui vient de rater le départ du cirque pour l'Italie et prend le train pour le rejoindre. Les deux hommes vont se tenir compagnie pendant trois jours. Mais le corps de Marcel gonfle au moindre contact avec le maïs...