Quick Quick Slow
Canadian Premiere
Screening Time
Friday, May 28, 7:00pm
Film Trailer
Fiction / China / 2008 / 82 minutes
Director： Ye, Kai
Producer: Zhang, Lanxin
Produced by DFM Films Shanghai Ltd.
Language : Mandarin & Shanghainese w/ English subtitles
Shall We Dance for seniors
China hosts the Olympics for the first time. The whole country is excited. The forgotten generation, the same age as Red China – once passionate in their youth, then sent to the countryside in every corner of China for re-education—wants to be a part of it. A group of people—a security guard in his middle age crisis, a desperate housewife, a fame-seeker and her admirer, an odd couple in their fifties……. started their own dance team. They practiced; they dreamed; they struggled…… Is this for real or it is just a dream?
The main plot is interspersed with interviews with people in their 50′s recalling experiences during the Cultural Revolution. The hardships endured by this resilient generation offer a poignant historical dimension that suggests why the fictional characters throw themselves into their past-times, as if to make up for their squandered youth.
Festival Entries & Award
12th Shanghai International Film Festival (2009)
29th Hawaii International Film Festival (2009)
Opening film & Audience Award, 3rd Cologne Chinese Film Festival (2009)
About Ke, Yai
Ke, Yai graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2005. Heroes, a 35mm short film he directed in 2005, was acclaimed for its creativity and ingenuity. He combined clay animated cartoon with storytelling. The film was presented by Beijing Youth Film Studio. Quick, Quick, Slow is his first feature film.
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