The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo)

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo) (2006)

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An elderly woman discovers her trusting nature is a severe disadvantage in the 21st century in this comedy drama from Chinese filmmaker Ann Hui. Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa) was born and raised in Manchuria, but came to Shanghai to seek her fortune years ago. Now in her early sixties and once again… More

Unrated,
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Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 8, 2006 Wide
Central Motion Pictures Corporation

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  • David Rooney, Variety

    [The film is] better when it acquires a melancholy strain than in the early, more comic action

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    since wwi, the orient, especially the far east, has become the colonial prey of occiental domination, and frankly such aggression has only been deepened by the progress of globalization(from material level to ideological standard) which is a beauitified utopian term of cultural… More

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