Perpetual Motion
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:26 am
There seems to be, according to the movie summary, a possible (or questionable) footsie scene in this Chinese movie called "Perpetual Motion", a.k.a. "Wu Qiong Dong". A small description of it is below, along with a link with more info about it.
I was thinking about the staring openly issue as I stared openly at people through my glasses in the line up for Perpetual Motion at the Varsity last night. I think the film fest is the only time of year when it’s APPROPRIATE to stare openly because if you don’t, you could miss the minor celebrities! Also, the swag, as Katr noted in Sunday’s TIFF post. Sadly, we didn’t see anyone famous last night (or rather, anyone famous that we recognized) but I’ve been working on a technique to separate the major from the minor players in the film world. It basically consists of me screeching “Are you FAMOUS?†at anyone important-looking who walks by. I’ll let you know how it pans out.
The movie last night, the aforementioned Perpetual Motion, was a film from China about a woman who finds out her husband is having an affair with a friend of hers. She then invites her 3 friends over for the Spring Festival to try and ferret out who’d been getting it on with her man. The women in the film are all well-known, middle-aged Chinese celebrities, artists, business women and political figures. The Canadian equivalent would probably star Heather Reisman, Patricia Rozema, MP Carolyn Parrish and Sonja Smits. The film was quite mesmerizing - great music - and the performances were also great, although I feel they could have shaved about 5 or 6 minutes off the elaborate, lengthy chicken-feet sucking scene. The film was rape-free (a plus) and it yielded one of the few quasi-lesbian scenes at this year’s film festival! A little attempted nuzzling, a little footsie . . . good times.
http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/beijin ... ual-motion
I was thinking about the staring openly issue as I stared openly at people through my glasses in the line up for Perpetual Motion at the Varsity last night. I think the film fest is the only time of year when it’s APPROPRIATE to stare openly because if you don’t, you could miss the minor celebrities! Also, the swag, as Katr noted in Sunday’s TIFF post. Sadly, we didn’t see anyone famous last night (or rather, anyone famous that we recognized) but I’ve been working on a technique to separate the major from the minor players in the film world. It basically consists of me screeching “Are you FAMOUS?†at anyone important-looking who walks by. I’ll let you know how it pans out.
The movie last night, the aforementioned Perpetual Motion, was a film from China about a woman who finds out her husband is having an affair with a friend of hers. She then invites her 3 friends over for the Spring Festival to try and ferret out who’d been getting it on with her man. The women in the film are all well-known, middle-aged Chinese celebrities, artists, business women and political figures. The Canadian equivalent would probably star Heather Reisman, Patricia Rozema, MP Carolyn Parrish and Sonja Smits. The film was quite mesmerizing - great music - and the performances were also great, although I feel they could have shaved about 5 or 6 minutes off the elaborate, lengthy chicken-feet sucking scene. The film was rape-free (a plus) and it yielded one of the few quasi-lesbian scenes at this year’s film festival! A little attempted nuzzling, a little footsie . . . good times.
http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/beijin ... ual-motion
