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Stars and heads of state mingled as the Sundance Film Festival opened
its Salt Lake City screenings Friday night with a gala.
This year's lone Chinese entry into the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
(January 19-29) is the World Premiere of acclaimed director Zhang
Yuan's Little Red Flowers, based upon a novel by Wang Shuo, one of the
most famous novelists in China. It has been selected to participate in the
World Competition
section.
One of China's most popular and acclaimed
6th-generation filmmakers, Zhang returns after a long absence following
the commercial success of his previous film Green Tea, starring superstars
Jiang Wen and Zhao Wei, released in 2002. His previous works include
award-winners such as the seminal Beijing
Bastards (1992), the controversial East Palace, West Palace (1996) and
Venice Film Fest-winning Seventeen
Years (1999)，I Love
You (2002).
Little Red Flowers tells the tale of a rebellious four-year-old named
Qiang studying at a post-1949 Beijing kindergarten. Unable to conform yet
longing for the accolade given to other students in the form of little red
flowers, he instead uses his charm and wits to scheme against the teacher.
The film is a contemporary satire that examines the inherent pressure of
being forced to "fit" into the confines of a society.
Started by Robert Redford in 1981, the Sundance Film Festival has grown
to become the most important American film festival for independent
cinema. The World Competition section was added to the lineup in 2005.
(Agencies) | 
Updated: 2006-01-24 16:21
