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Walking on the Wild Side (2006)

Walking on the Wild Side (2006)

Drama
Release Date: 2006, March 24
Directors: Han Jie
Countries: China, France
Production: Xstream Pictures, Les Petites Lumieres

Overview:

Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province. A Chinese road movie, Walking on the Wild Side charts a young gang’s continuous flights from one kind of trouble to the next. Mirroring the stark and barren landscape, the film relays the grim story of these delinquents’ dreams of liberty and easy money. Played by nonprofessional actors who are real life troublemakers, the film offers a realism that is at once oppressive, cruel, and sympathetic.