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DESCRIPTION:Film "SUNFLOWER" plays at 4-Star Theatre\nFrom The Director of “Shower” 
 \n\nWinning of Best Director and Photography Silver Shell Award a 2005 San 
 Sebastian Film Festival | Official Selection, 2005 Toronto Film Festival | 
 2006 Hong Kong International Film Festival | 2007 Pacific Rim Film 
 Festival\n\nFilm:  Sunflower     \n\nOpening Date:  Friday, May 16th, 
 2008\n\nLocation:  \n4 Star Movie Theatres\n2200 Clement St.@23rd Ave\nSan 
 Francisco, Ca. 94121\n(415) 
 666-3706\nWWW.LNTSF.COM\n\n________________________________________________________\n\nTITLE: 
  SUNFLOWER (Original title: Kiang ri kui) \n\nFrom The Director of 
 “Shower” \n\nWinning of Best Director and Photography Silver Shell 
 Award a 2005 San Sebastian Film Festival | Official Selection, 2005 Toronto 
 Film Festival | 2006 Hong Kong International Film Festival | 2007 Pacific 
 Rim Film Festival \n\n"Sunflower," mature and luminous, weaves a subtle 
 psychological insight into a rich, narrative texture. The movie is destined 
 to be entrenched in the viewers' memory as a brilliantly focused family 
 snapshot. It glows with an interior light that seems to settle like a 
 sunbeam, shining with particles of memories containing visions of a China 
 forever lost in the frenzy of modernization and urbanization.  – By Zhu 
 Linyong, China Daily\n\nSynopsis\n\nSunflower spans the course of three 
 decades - focusing on the years 1976, 1987 and 1999 – in the lives of 
 Zhang Gengnian and his son, Xiangyang. \n\nIn the years leading up to 1976, 
 when The Cultural Revolution and the reign of the notorious ‘Gang of 
 Four’ were coming to an end, Zhang Gengnian was an absentee father. 
 Condemned to spending six years in a rural ‘Cadre School’ - a labor 
 camp where he was to be politically “reeducated” - Gengnian missed 
 Xiangyang’s formative years. At nine-years-old, Xiangyang is having the 
 time of his life. Nearly free of adult supervision, he spends his days 
 mischievously roaming the streets. Gengnian, however, has his own idea 
 about the direction that his son’s life should take and, now that he’s 
 been released, he’s determined to make up for lost time. Most 
 particularly, he wants Xiangyang to learn to draw, but it isn’t long 
 before Xiangyang starts to chafe under his father’s constant rules and 
 orders, quickly giving rise to tensions between father and son that won’t 
 soon go away.\n\nBy 1987, Xiangyang has become an accomplished draughtsman, 
 but his conflicts with his father seem set in stone. While he dreams of 
 escaping his father’s clutches by running away with his girlfriend to 
 Guangzhou, Xiangyang remains stuck at home, forced to study for the 
 university entrance exams. Xiangyang has no idea how far his father will go 
 to control his life in the name of “what’s best” for him, although 
 he’ll one day discover the hurtful truth that his parents have taken away 
 the one thing that was truly his… \n\nTwelve years later, Beijing has 
 become a new city, with redevelopment projects stretching to the horizon 
 and demolition of the last remaining alleyways and courtyard housing in 
 progress. Xiangyang has married a girl named Han Jing and his burgeoning 
 career as a painter is about to take off with a big solo exhibition of his 
 work. However an unplanned pregnancy that both Han Jing and Xiangyang are 
 determined to abort leaves Gengnian reeling. Erupting over his son’s 
 “selfish” decision to deny him a grandchild, Gengnian fails to appear 
 at the opening of\n\nXiangyang’s exhibition. Days later Xiangyang does 
 find his father secretly visiting the exhibition and praising his work, but 
 Gengnian soon disappears, leaving behind only a revelatory audio tape for 
 his son.\n\nSunflower is a powerful and touching look at the compelling 
 inner dynamics of one post-Cultural Revolution family in Beijing and their 
 struggle over thirty years to adjust to each other as the fabric, politics, 
 and social mores of Chinese society change ever so rapidly.\n\nDirector:  
 Zhang Yang\n\nCast: Sun Haiying, Joan Chen, Liu Zifeng, Zhang Fan, Gao Ge, 
 Wang Haidi \n\nRunning Time: 129 Minutes | Language: Mandarin with English 
 subtitle \n\nYear Released: 2005 | NR | Screeners are available on 
 request\n\nFilm Website:  
 \n\nhttp://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/theatrical/nr_t.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/08/18498076.php
SUMMARY:Film "SUNFLOWER" plays at 4-Star Theatre
LOCATION:4 Star Movie Theatres\n2200 Clement St.@23rd Ave\nSan Francisco, Ca. 
 94121\n(415) 666-3706\nWWW.LNTSF.COM
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/08/18498076.php
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