The film tells the story of a French female journalist, Si Nuo, who happened to come to China in the early 1980s during the reform and opening up, and met the rural guy Liu Changgen. The two had a good time together. I have heard and witnessed the entanglement of love and marriage between young Chinese in those days, and left an unforgettable romantic love story with Changgen.
Reviews
Just perfect...
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.