MIFF film review: Stolen Life

Posted by The Editor on Thursday 28 July 2005, 1:31 pm
Categories: Entertainment, Film, MIFF '05  

They say:

Robert De Niro presented Stolen Life director Li Shaohong with the top prize at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Li Shaohong is one of the most prominent female directors working in China today. Banned in its homeland, the film revolves around teenage Yan-ni, whose prospects look bleak. Even her peasant family believes she is not going to amount to much. But when Yan-ni is accepted into a nearby university she believes she has found a way out. On her first day at school she literally runs into the very attractive Mu-yu, who immediately begins to court her. Yan-ni is getting a good education and is living with the man she loves, soon to be married, when she begins to get inklings that Mu-yu is staging an intricate scam, one that he has pulled off before.

GrodsCorp says:

Nice young girl meets devil disguised as nice young guy. Her promising university career cut short by a bun in the oven that young boy is cooking for sale to highest bidder. Young girl discovers truth and is quite pissed off.
5 stars

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