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Cao Baoping: Trouble Makers (Guangrongde Fennu)
Part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series - New Chinese Cinema: The Unofficial Stories of Tang Tang, Fourth Child, Little Moth and Others
When:
October 17, 2007 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Where
China, 2006
35mm, Mandarin w/ English s/t, 103 min.
West Coast Premiere
Four brothers—salt traffickers, rapists and profiteers—rule over a backwater village. Unable to fight this new “Gang of Four” through official channels, the local Party Secretary, Ye Guangrong, assembles a colorful posse of assorted riff-raff, thugs, coarse peasants and fed-up villagers. And then they fight dirty—joyfully pouring out the foulest, most vulgar and imaginative language heard in recent Chinese cinema.
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