Little Red Flowers

Little Red Flowers

Promotional poster
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Produced by Li Bo Wen
Allen Chan
Zhang Yuan
Marco Mueller
Wang Shuo
Written by Ning Dai
Zhang Yuan
Wang Shuo (novel)
Starring Dong Bo Wen
Zhao Rui
Li Xiao Feng
Chen Li
Music by Carlo Crivelli
Cinematography Yang Tao
Edited by Jacopo Quadri
Distributed by Fortissimo Films
Release dates
  • February 15, 2006 (2006-02-15) (Berlin)
Running time
91 minutes
Country China
Language Mandarin

Little Red Flowers (Chinese: 看上去很美; pinyin: Kàn shàng qù hén měi) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan. The film was a co-production between China's Beijing Century Good-Tidings Cultural Development Company LTD and Italy's Downtown Pictures. The Dutch company, Fortissimo Films handled worldwide sales.

The film, based on author Wang Shuo's semi-autobiographical novel, Could Be Beautiful, follows a young four-year-old boy, Fang Qiang Qiang, at a kindergarten boarding school. Deposited into a world that demands conformity (rewarded by the titular little red flowers), Qiang suffers for his bullying.

The film is Zhang's second adaptation of a novel by Wang, after 2003's I Love You.[1]

Cast

Reception

Little Red Flowers has premiered at several international film festivals. It premiered at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2006, as part of the Panorama series. In Berlin, it won the C.I.C.A.E. Award. The film also premiered at other major festivals including Sundance (as part of the World Cinema competition), and Cannes where it was in-competition.

Notes

  1. that's Beijing staff (2006-05-11). "Little Red Flowers". that's Beijing. Retrieved 2007-09-02.

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