TEXAS PREMIERE

Wen Shan (Hu Ge, The Wild Goose Lake, Blossoms Shanghai) was once the golden boy of his university screenwriting class. Now at middle age, he makes his living as an author of eulogies, his Beijing apartment crowded with the detritus of missed chances and discarded dreams. Despite this, he carries out his work with rare thoroughness, interviewing friends and loved ones to convey as much as possible of the deceased subject’s essence. But his approach leaves some unimpressed—notably Shao Jinsui (Qi Xi, So Long, My Son), who arrives unannounced to take issue with his eulogy for her friend. Drawing from her own long hiatus after the breakthroughs Oxhide (2005) and Oxhide II (2009), writer/director Liu Jiayin infuses this quietly ambitious comeback with 14 years’ reflections on life, death, and what comes between. - Josh Martin, Feature Film Programmer

DIRECTOR/WRITER: Jiayin Liu

PRODUCER: Mao Chuxiao

LENGTH: 1 hour 59 minutes

LANGUAGES:  Mandarin with English subtitles

COUNTRY: China

GENRE: Narrative Feature, Drama