Top 10 movies screened in China in 2012

By Zhang Rui
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 Feng Shui 

The low budget film directed by Wang Jing tells the tragic story of a woman in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Wu Nan's screenplay is based on a novel by Fang Fang.

Protagonist Li Baoli was played by Yan Bingyan, who portrays a strong woman's hardships after she and her husband move into a new house. However, a friend tells her that the house will bring bad luck due to its bad fengshui, the traditional Chinese superstition of determining or improving a man's fate by where he lives and how he arranges his interior decor.

But the story is not really about fengshui, but about the protagonist's grim struggle with life in a modern city, life in the current Chinese society and in family affairs. She never surrenders to the turmoil life throws at her, but her personality does produce a great deal of tragedy merely through itself.

The movie is the best Chinese film of 2012 and the best drama having been on screens in years with a powerful and emotional performance by actress Yan Bingyan.

However, despite of raving reviews from critics, the film wasn't much of a commercial success and caused quite the controversy when it pulled out of the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival due to Chinese-Japanese political tensions over the Diaoyu Islands.

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