The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters (植物园). dir Dai Sijie (戴思杰). 2006. The Chinese Botanist’s Daug
The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters (植物园). dir Dai Sijie (戴思杰). 2006. The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters, French name Les filles du botaniste, is a French and Canadian produced film by director Dai Sijie. The film is about a famous botanist, whose daughter falls in love with a female botany student who is studying at his home. The relationship is risky and taboo, and when the botanist finds out, he dies of a heart attack in shock. The two women and their homosexuality are blamed for his death. The film was deemed “improper” by China and thus although it was set in China, it was not filmed nor shown there. Dai Sijie is a director and author, born in Chengdu in 1954. In his late teen years during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to a re-education camp, an experience that later shaped his works. In 1984, he went to France on a scholarship to study at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. Follow sinθ magazine for more daily posts about Sino arts and culture. -- source link
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