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Cinema on the Edge: The Best of the Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012-2014
Cut Out the Eyes
Xu Tong, 2014, 80 min.
Er Housheng is a blind musician who travels Inner Mongolia with his lover/partner Liu Lanlan
performing the saucy, sensationally bawdy form of musical duet comedy called er ren tai. Er's
female audiences are particularly enthralled with his combination of sensuality, Rabelaisian
earthiness, and frankly socially subversive lyrics. Director Xu's specialty is to train his piercingly
observant documentary camera intimate and complicit, rather than coldly objective on
unique Chinese characters like Er, using them to probe deep beneath the surface of China's clash of rural traditions with its urbanizing contemporaneity. The result is, on one hand, an enthralling ethnographic showpiece; but it's at its core a passionate and frenzied psycho-drama of lust, violence, and genius.
Q&A with NYU professor and Reel China co-curator Angela Zito.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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