“Beijing Bicycle” was the third film by Wang Xiaoshuai, who was born in Shanghai in 1966 and originally wanted to become a painter. Awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale in 2001, this was Wang’s first film to be “officially” shown abroad. His first film, “The Days” (1993), was a rough piece of independent cinema, made with minimal resources, and was not submitted for censorship. Without approval from the censors, it was (and is) forbidden to be shown in public. It was thanks to non-Chinese friends that “The Days” was able to be screened in the Forum at the 1994 Berlinale. In 1997, this process was repeated with “Frozen”, which was already sensitive due to its political subject matter. It premiered at the Rotterdam Festival, with the pseudonym Wu Ming (“no name”) given as the director’s name.
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- 2/8/2025
- by Andreas Ungerbock
- AsianMoviePulse
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