Director
Lina Yang
Featuring
Lei Hao, Elaine Jin, Junxi Qu
Genres
Drama
Country
China
Language
Mandarin with English subtitles
Release Date
2019
⏲️ 124min
Our Take
An Intergenerational Story of Three Women
Lina Yang‘s personal story of an all-female family.
Spring Tide is a raw examination of three generations of women who also represent different eras of Chinese history. Nominated for prizes at the 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Taipei Golden Horse Awards, and winner of the Audience Award at the 2019 FIRST International Film Festival in Xining, China, Spring Tide is Lina Yang’s second narrative film.
Synopsis:
Single Mother and Journalist, Guo Jianbo lives together with her mother and daughter. Walled in traditional family conventions, the relation of three generations of women is distant and uneasy; but behind the silence of Guo Jianbo, her daughter’s insecurity and the grandmother’s constant whining, there are conflicting undercurrents of rebellion, family care and resilience.
Yang Lina uses the story of an all-female family to present a series of multi-levelled themes, epitomising women relations in Chinese society. The generational gap provides tension, heighted by a special cast performance and a raw portrayal of bottled-up feelings and bitterness that spill out through moments of inner violence. Tied by blood and with a similarly fierce temper, the mother and daughter seem like in total opposition. And yet, they both hide and pretend outside home to be someone else. Nuanced and with a particular attention to detail, Lina Yang’s Spring tide is a thought-provoking study character and an honest exploration of female family relations.
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