Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Directed by Wang Chao (China, 2006, 88 minutes, 35 mm, Mandarin and Wuhanese with English subtitles)
In this emotionally taut narrative, Li Qi Ming travels from his small village to the city of Wuhan, determined to fulfill his wife’s last wish of seeing her son. But instead of finding his son, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to come to terms with their long-estranged relationship and the tenuous future of his family. Director Wang Chao uses Li Qi Ming to represent the painful reality of thousands of parents who have lost contact with their children through rural exodus and political upheaval in China.
Global Lens 2008 is a series of 10 independent films from across the globe being screened in 35 mm and hosted by PIER (Programs in International Educational Resources) in collaboration with the Councils on Middle East Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, African Studies, European Studies, East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center.