强烈推荐－电影《美姐》，将于11月9日晚7点展映，主创人员受邀参加
L Zhu
休斯顿艺术电影节与亚洲协会德州中心将展映中国电影《美姐》（英文名：Love Songs of Tiedan ）并邀请导演郝杰，主演冯四，葛夏，叶兰等五位主创人员参加休斯顿首映，诚挚的邀请大家来参加这次盛会。
时间：11月9日（星期六）晚7点
地点：Asia Society Texas Center (1370 Southmore Blvd. Houston, TX 77004)
票价：12元
购票网址：http://www.explorehouston.org/ticketing/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=665
《美姐》讲述了山西“二人台”演员铁蛋儿的爱情故事。铁蛋的爱情开始得早，八岁就恋上了邻家巧妇美姐。文革禁唱地方戏曲二人台，也驱离了美姐一家人。辗转十多年，铁蛋俨然已是条汉子。随着美姐与三个女儿返乡，看似忘不掉美姐，铁蛋先与其大女儿私恋未果，却被迫娶了二女儿作为「补偿」。最后决定跟着戏班子流浪，随他出门的却是美姐家的老三。有道是二人台不是天天有，情歌永远唱不完。这部讲述“一个男人和母女四人的情感纠葛”的“2013年最美的文艺片”,也被赞誉为中国版的《西西里的美丽传说》。
《美姐》是青年导演郝杰的第二部大银幕作品，其前作为涉及复杂的男女关系以及伦理元素的《光棍儿》。《光棍儿》并没有在院线上映，但在网上却有2000多万的点击率。从《光棍儿》到《美姐》，导演郝杰被称为目前最具独立精神的中国青年导演，也有人称他是姜文的接班人。
强烈推荐，欢迎大家前来观影！
Ning Wu
吴宁
Houston Cinema Arts Festival presents
The Love Songs of Tiedan: Film and Live Performance!
Nov. 09, 2013 | Asia Society Texas Center |
With director Hao Jie and actors Feng Si, actresses Ge Xia and Yelan Jiang, and producer Xiaomei Xing
The screening will be followed by a short live performance of “er ten tai” music by the actors!
China, 2012
Directed by Hao Jie
Screenplay by Hao Jie, Ge Xia
Cinematography by Du Pu
Editing by Baek Seung-Hoon
Music by Xiao He
Cast: Feng Si, Yelan Jiang, Weicheng Shi, Du Huanrong, Ge Xia, Feng Yun, Li Yuqin
Running Time: 91 minutes
Chinese director Hao Jie delights with his lively musical comedy about a young man’s romantic obsession spanning several decades. A larkish tribute to the er ren tai form of bawdy folk singing practiced for centuries in the Northwestern mountainous region of China, The Love Songs of Tiedan is shot in a village in this region and acted mostly by native nonprofessionals.
The temporary prohibition of er ren tai is just one obstacle that Tiedan (Feng Si) must cope with. As a child, the precocious Tiedan becomes deeply attached to his beautiful neighbor Sister May. As an adult he ends up having various romantic complications with all three of her children—identified only as First Daughter, Second Daughter, and Third Daughter. Sister May is the pupil and the singing partner of Tiedan’s father, a man so devoted to er ren tai that he will get into serious trouble during the Cultural Revolution for practicing a “feudal” form of entertainment.
Director Hao Jie focuses on male desire as in his debut, Single Man, a film that earned him an international reputation as one of China’s most exciting new independent directors. But The Love Songs of Tiedan, according to critic Berenice Reynaud, draws from a broader “range of cinematic and visual styles from ethnomusicology to musical to comedy to expressionism.” Hao also pushes the envelope of romantic longing and obsession much further than in his previous work.
Co-presenting partner: Asia Society Texas Center.
