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Crossing over
Title
Crossing over [electronic resource] / directed by Jin Chen.
Published
Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (88 min.).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2013. (Asian film online). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in Mandarin.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
The filmmaker says a newspaper story inspired Crossing Over and asks, How does the warmth of love survive and thrive in the confines of a cold prison, and over three long decades of changes in China's government? Jin Chen answers us with a beautiful story that begins in the early 1900s and unfolds for decades. Love's beauty is expressed in small, quiet looks and gestures between two prisoners. Liu Lang is in prison for having crippled a man. Zhou Hong is a prisoner for having murdered her abusive husband. In this place, men and women are separated, silenced, beaten, and confined with restrictions tough enough to kill one's soul. But despite the trials they must endure, Lang and Hong are fated to rise like phoenixes out of these ashes and to entwine their souls in real love. Crossing Over is a picture of more than kinship between the two lovers; their love transcends and finds its eternity even when the deadening trials of prison life keep feet and mind earthbound. Festivals: Opening Film, 2007 Tokyo Film Festival.
Variant and related titles
Original title: Feng huang
Other formats
Previously released as DVD.
Original
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Chinese
Added to Catalog
January 03, 2014
Series
Asian film online
Audience
DVD-RNA-PG-C.
Subjects
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Asia Pacific Films.com.
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