- Japan Premiere
Special Screenings
I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY
我不是潘金蓮
Director: FENG Xiaogang (馮小剛)
2016｜China｜139min｜Language: Mandarin｜Subtitles: Japanese, English
| Date | Time | Venue | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/4 (Sat) | 12:00 *Sold Out | Cine Libre Umeda 4 | |
| 3/9 (Thu) | 18:40 | ABC Hall |
- Cast
- FAN Bingbing (范冰冰)
GUO Tao (郭濤)
DA Peng (大鵬)
ZHANG Jiayi (張嘉譯)
YU Hewei (于和偉) - Synopsis
Li Xuelian is a recently-divorced woman from provincial China who is suprisingly upset about said divorce. To her it was fake because it was part of a scam to get a new house with her ex-husband but he used it as a chance to marry another woman and even tarnishes Xuelian’s name with claims of infidelity. Despite her protests and appeals, she is shunned by the courts who regard the divorce as real and so, over the course of ten years she takes drastic action to petition various levels of government, and each year she finishes with a protest outside the National Congress in Beijing, something which embarrasses the party leadership who try and silence her.
Adapted for the screen by Liu Zhenyun from his own 2012 novel, “I Did Not Kill My Husband,” this is a darkly humorous story about one woman challenging Chinese officialdom over what some may see as a trivial matter but for her, is a matter of life and death.