Perfect Life (film)
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Jia Zhangke
Li Xiudong
Chen Taisheng
Jenny Tse
| Perfect Life | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Emily Tang |
| Produced by | Chow Keung Jia Zhangke Li Xiudong |
| Starring | Yao Qianyu Chen Taisheng Jenny Tse |
| Cinematography | Lai Yiu-fai |
| Edited by | Chow Keung |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Celluloid Dreams |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
Perfect Life (Chinese: 完美生活) is a 2008 Chinese-Hong Kong film by Emily Tang and produced by director Jia Zhangke (who received a co-producer credit) and his company, Xstream Pictures. The film mixes elements of dramatic fiction and documentary film.
Melbourne controversy
With the backing of the established director, Jia Zhangke, Perfect Life had relatively high-profile screenings at a variety of major international film festivals. Its international premiere was during the 65th Venice Film Festival, as part of the Horizons sidebar."[1] Perfect Life also competed in the Asia-focused Dragons and Tigers program in the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival, a program which it won due to "the way it captures the harshness of Chinese reality through its fictional protagonist, and for the subtlety of its wonderfully free storytelling," according to the award jury.[2] The film also captured the "Golden Digital Prize" at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.[3]
Perfect Life was subject of some controversy in 2009 when it was pulled by Jia from the Melbourne International Film Festival, along with Jia's own Cry Me a River.[4] The decision by Jia was due to the Melbourne Film Festival's decision to air a documentary film, The 10 Conditions of Love, about the Uighur advocate, Rebiya Kadeer, who is a highly controversial figure in China.[4] In a letter to the festival's organizers, Jia stated that pulled both to protest against Kadeer's attendance of the event. A third film, the Chinese documentary Petition, was also withdrawn due to the controversy.[4]