The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (1994)
Directed by Xie Fei
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Family Drama |
Run Time - 105 min. |
Countries - China |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Yuri German
In a rural area of China, a woman makes the best sesame oil in the neighborhood. A Japanese businesswoman wants to buy her oil and proposes to modernize the oil mill. The woman agrees to cooperate. Her son is in love with a local girl, but the girl's parents don't let her marry him because of the boy's epilepsy. However, using the poor financial state of the girl's family, the woman arranges this uneasy marriage. The film is slow-paced and many story lines remain unresolved, but some viewers might be attracted by the fact that it received the Grand Prize at the 1993 Berlin Film Festival.
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cooking, woman, businessperson, proposition, epilepsy, marriage, oil, mill
