The summer Solstice
Director：Li Ruijun
Screenwriter：Li Ruijun
Cast：Zheng Hui, Song Jinyang, Zhang Min, DuoRina
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Running Time：105mins
Region：China
Year：2006
Language：Chinese
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SYNOPSIS
HuYang arrived in Beijing with a sustained effort in a hot summer. In order to change his fate, he managed a company with friends without finishing his college education, but unluckily his company went broke. So he decided to be a bonze, but all his plans came to nothing. It was then that he met his brother-in-law, YangHua. Then they lived in narrow room, looking for his younger brother, HuTao. Gradually, they fell into sexual love with each other. Soon after, HuYang was called to return ancestral home for his father’s sad dead, so he immediately hastened home. Because of the dubious relationship between YangHua and HuYang, the whole family had a serious meeting to solve the big problem. Finally, it ended with YangHua’s pregnancy. Finally the whole family had to agree on their marriage. After the short, happy marriage, but HuYang was not satisfied with the reality, so he left for Beijing again to reach for his old dreams. The world is always full of fortuity. Months later, when he came back home on a hot summer night, the small town far from Beijing but it is the same hot as it was in Beijing. Two women came from far away who got married in the same village; they mistook their own feelings about their darling for deep love……
Director Biography
<p>Li Ruijun, male, currently 24 years old, born in 1983 in Gaotai, Gansu. He began studying painting and music at the age of 14; graduated from the Management Cadre Academy of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television in 2003; from 2003 to early 2006, he worked in film and television directing at TV stations and production companies; in 2006, he independently produced, wrote, and directed his film debut "The Summer Solstice," which participated in the 9th International Independent Filmmakers Film Festival.</p>
Director's Statement
<p>At the beginning of 21st Century, China has changes. A great many educated youth with colorful dreams were running all the way to reach for their dreams and value. They were wandering in the river of reality life, up and down, which seems calm but rushed. While coming towards and looking back, everything was designed elaborately by them collapsed before the old traditional moral concepts. Facing to the changing things, they were longing for something but could not change the reality, to face to the reality or to go with the steam? They wandered, worried, anxious, silent, sensitive even look on the world with a cold eye. In the sunshine and in the life which is full of suspense, They impulse with love, they were childish, and then they failed, took a risk, they promised, also had responsibilities, They tried to escape reality, struggled and grew as well, they were eager to change the reality, as a result, they were changed by cruel life.</p><p>Everything was filled in the life space, which seemed wide, but closed, such as original, changeable, traditional, modern and so on. The young people spent their youth in such hard situations……</p><p><br></p>
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