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      11 Flowers

      Released Feb 22, 2013 1h 50m Drama List
      85% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 69% 250+ Ratings Audience Score In 1975 China, a youngster (Liu Wenqing) has a costly encounter with a fugitive, who steals the boy's new shirt and convinces him to help him escape. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Set during the Cultural Revolution but remained almost silent about it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member http://www.clevelandmovieblog.com/2013/05/11-flowers-may-18th-and-19th-at.html Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member a very engaging film - the world was foolproof and so fascinating to watch! and it was wonderful to see the similarities and differences between their world and my own. the script was well-written and the film felt very real. every action, every character, every event was well-earned. there were some moments that i found confusing, but i think it may have been because of the language barrier and a few subtitles i missed. i think it'll make more sense upon multiple viewings. overall it was a simple story that was well-explored and well done. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review walter m On the way to work in a neighboring town, Wang(Wang Jinchun), an actor, gives his 11-year old son, Han(Liu Wenquing), a ride part of the way on his bicycle to his school where he has just been appointed to lead morning gymnastics and Jue Hong(Mo Shiyi), an older student, has been called to the principal's office. The only thing is that Mrs. Zhao feels Han needs a new shirt which his mother(Yen Ni), now in charge of the household and a factory worker, says they cannot afford, wanting to save the ration coupons and the money for the New Year celebration, even over her son's epic sulking. But once she talks to the teacher and sees him in action, she changes her mind. As endearing as "11 Flowers" can be with an ending that is definitely a punch to the gut, I was wondering when watching this if I was actually watching a movie about a shirt. To be honest, I have seen movies that have succeeded on less but set as this is at the tail end of the Cultural Revolution, it does need more in its rambling narrative, as otherwise it just feels like these momentous events happened to everybody else. So while the most important events happen offscreen, including stranding an intriguing mystery, telling the story exclusively from Han's point of view does work really well in a couple of places where it takes a couple of seconds to ascertain what exactly is happening. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A boy wants a new T-shirt , gets a new T-shirt , lost his new T-shirt was the first hour , a dead body ...then i did fall a sleep Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution in China.. the plot brings out the socio-economic picture of the time through the eyes of a young boy... A well spent 2 hours at the Kolkata Film Festival 2012... Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Aaron Hillis Village Voice More sensitive than disaffected, too gentle to resonate more than mildly. Feb 22, 2013 Full Review Farran Smith Nehme New York Post The movie lingers in the mind, largely because director Wang Xiaoshuai's theme is poignant and classic: The more a child perceives of what the adults around him are doing, the more childhood slips away. Rated: 2.5/4 Feb 22, 2013 Full Review Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Poised on the brink of sexual awareness and the waning of the Cultural Revolution, an 11-year-old boy struggles to interpret the signals from his changing body and an increasingly confusing world. Rated: 3.5/5 Feb 21, 2013 Full Review Clayton Davis AwardsCircuit.com A classy, poignant tale that resonates loudly and enchants the most tender parts of the human soul. Rated: 3.5/4 Jul 12, 2017 Full Review Mike Scott Times-Picayune A richly directed and historically credible film that -- with its sense of time and place -- ends up functioning as fascinating and poignant temporal travelogue. Rated: 3/5 Mar 1, 2013 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews This brilliant coming-of-age story should demonstrate that Americans should be hacking Chinese computers to steal intellectual property and not the other way around--especially Hollywood. Feb 23, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis In 1975 China, a youngster (Liu Wenqing) has a costly encounter with a fugitive, who steals the boy's new shirt and convinces him to help him escape.
      Director
      Wang Xiaoshuai
      Screenwriter
      Wang Xiaoshuai, Lao Ni
      Distributor
      First Run
      Production Co
      Chinese Shadows, WXS Production
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Chinese
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 22, 2013, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 11, 2017
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $9.2K
      Runtime
      1h 50m