The first feature film "Spring River Plumbing" directed by the young Chinese young director Gu Xiaogang won the "Critics' Choice Award" from the Film Festival and the German Film Critics Association at the just-concluded 27th Hamburg International Film Festival. This is also another heavyweight award for the film "Spring River Plumbing" after the best film and best director of the 13th FIRST Youth Film Festival. In addition, the film was selected into competition units of international film festivals such as Vancouver Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Busan Film Festival, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, and became the closing film of the 58th "Critics Week" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Quite abundant.
The movie "Chunjiang Plumbing" is set on the Fuchun River in Hangzhou, China, and tells about the warmth and warmth experienced by an ordinary family in daily life. In the film, an elderly mother suffers from a stroke at a birthday banquet and suffers from a dementia. The four sons take turns to take care of her. Their respective families are also facing the test of family affection and reality. Intergenerational differences, warm and cold relationships, individual dilemmas, and the commonality of the times are blended and displayed in the changing of the four seasons. The humanistic landscape and market style of contemporary China are told as the story unfolds. There are a total of 144 films selected for the
2019 Hamburg Film Festival this year, and some films can participate in the selection of film critic awards. The judges of the Hamburg International Film Festival gave the film "Spring River Plumbing" a high evaluation, "using a Chinese family to tell the story of the entire country", "Gu Xiaogang used a poetic and elegant way to let different narrative streams shuttle each other, such as the Fuchun River. Generally ups and downs, family epics take place on both sides of the strait. We appreciate the maturity and balance achieved by "Chunjiang Plumbing", especially a work by a newcomer." According to the director, the release of "Chunjiang Plumbing" is one of them. Part of the volume in the long-roll film trilogy "A Thousand Miles of Jiangdong Map". Some of the characters in "Spring River Plumbing" will also appear in the works of Volume 2 and Volume 3 in the future, but the following two works will tell new stories. Many contemporary Chinese market styles shown in this "Spring River Plumbing" are quite similar to Huang Gongwang's paintings. Not only a "story", but also a "picture".
It is reported that the movie "Spring River Plumbing" was produced by Factory Gate Film Co., Ltd., Dadi Times Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., and jointly produced by iQiyi Film Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhuoran Film Co., Ltd. The film was produced by Chuxiao Film Co., Ltd. Joint production by People Film and Factory Gate Film.
