SYNOPSIS

Drifters is a film about the side effects of emigration. The film tells the story of a young man whom returns to his village after having emigrated to America, having lived there illegally, and having survived the hardships of a journey, as the accident that nearly killed everyone in the ship because of some toxic gases. But things will not be great on his return: his father thinks he is lazy and it seems that the reconciliation is going to be difficult; moreover, his father does not allow him to see his only son. Meanwhile, he is starting an affair with a singer belonging to a travelling troupe of musicians.
An implacable film of social criticism that highlights the personal tragedy of a man who has run out of dreams or goals in life after having failed in their personal experience in America and having to return empty handed to his place of origin.

TECHNICAL DATA

Director:Wang Xiaoshuai
Screenplay: Wang Xiaoshuai
Production: Peggy Chiao, Hsu Hsiao-ming, Ning Yong.
Cast: Duan Long, Shu Yan, Wang Zi-lian, Zhao Yiwei, Jin Peizhu, Ke Da.
Film Editing: Hsiao Ju-kuan, Liao Ching-song
Cinematography: Wu Di
Soundtrack: Wang Feng
Runtime: 120 min. Language: Mandarin. Subtitles: Spanish.

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY

In 1993 begins the career of one of the best directors working in China today. Wang Xiaoshuai makes his debut with The Days and printing in the movie the aroma of the nouvelle vague and reminiscences of Jean Luc Godard’s movies that characterize his first stage, set in the bohemia world and in the end of the idealism. The director shows the disillusionment of his generation and his cinema soaks in pessimism.
The second film of Wang Xiaoshuai, Frozen (1995), exemplifies how the youth dreams can be break and how the resistance ended up being useless. This time the director was based on the real story of a young man who allegedly committed suicide publicly by turning this act into a work of art while attempting to transcend that fact as a scourge vindictive against the alienation suffered by the individual within modern societies. His next film, So close to paradise (1995) had various problems to go out in the light, but when it finally did it in 1998 it confirmed that he was immersed as a director in an interesting evolutionary process. Later he will make another two films that provided a worldwide prestige; both framed in a more academic framework, The bicycle of Pekin (2001) and Dreams of Shanghai (2005).

FILMOGRAPHY

- The Days (1993)- Director and screenwriter
- Frozen (1995)- Director and screenwriter
- So Close o Paradise (1998)- Director and screenwriter
- La bicicleta de Pekín (2001)- Director and screenwriter
- Drifters (2003)- Director and sceenwriter
- Shanghai Dreams (2005)- Director and screenwriter
- In Love we Trust (2007)- Director and screenwriter