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Zhang Yuan is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Camera Operator and Editor Chinois born on 1 january 1963 at Nanjing (Chine)

Zhang Yuan

Zhang Yuan
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Nationality Chine
Birth 1 january 1963 (61 years) at Nanjing (Chine)

Zhang Yuan (chinois : 张元) est un réalisateur chinois de la sixième génération, né à Nankin en 1963.

Biography

Il a été diplômé de l'Université de Cinéma de Pékin en 1989. Victime de la censure de la Chine communiste, les autorités chinoises n'apprécient pas East Palace West Palace et lui retirent son passeport.

Il reçoit le prix Robert-Bresson en 2006, reconnaissance de compatibilité de son œuvre avec l'Évangile.

Ne pas confondre avec Zhang Yuan qui est aussi la translittération en pinyin du nom d'une romancière taïwanaise (mais dont le nom en sinogrammes diffère).

Best films

Winged Migration (2001)
(Camera Operator)

Usually with

Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo
(3 films)
Zhao Wei
Zhao Wei
(2 films)
Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Zhang Yuan (14 films)

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Actor

Green Tea
Green Tea (2003)
, 1h23
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhao Wei, Jiang Wen, Zhang Yuan
Roles Zhang
Rating64% 3.2482953.2482953.2482953.2482953.248295
A conservative Beijing graduate student name Wu Fang (Zhao Wei) goes on a series of blind dates. Sensitive to slights and the advances of the men, she often becomes offended and leaves halfway through the dates, though sometimes it is the men who leave first, annoyed by her behavior. On one date she meets Chen Minglian (Jiang Wen), whose fiancee had recently left him after having an affair with another man. Their initial date is an unmitigated disaster. Mingliang discusses her fortune-telling friend who Mingliang scoffs at, and Wu Fang walks out when Mingliang asks her how many previous boyfriends she has had. When he chases after her suggesting that they get a room in the local hotel, she slaps him and takes a taxi to get away from him. However, Mingliang pursues Fang who, while initially resistant, agrees to go on additional dates with Mingliang.
My Father and I, 1h40
Genres Drama
Actors Zhang Yuan, Jiang Wen
Roles Lao Kuan
Rating67% 3.366133.366133.366133.366133.36613
Xiao Yu, a Beijing teenager, is abruptly left without a mother following a traffic accident. Her father, Lao Yu, with whom she has had little contact, becomes her legal guardian. He is unsure how to act in this role, but as time progresses their relationship matures into an affectionate one. Lao Yu is not the most dependable of men, however. He gambles, engages in small-time black market business transactions, and spends a great deal of time at a bar associating with other men who live similar lives. This culminates finally in his arrest, and he spends some time in prison. In his absence, Xiao Yu graduates from high school and begins her university studies, and begins living with her boyfriend, a hot-tempered student from Hunan. When her father is released, he finds his relationship with his daughter strained, due in no small part to her frustrations over his absence and lack of dependability, along with his fatherly concerns about her living arrangement. She and her boyfriend leave Beijing for Shanghai, where she becomes pregnant. When her relationship with her boyfriend does not work out, she returns to Beijing to live with her father, who sees her through her pregnancy and helps her raise her child. He has not entirely mended his ways, however, and frequently sneaks out at night to gamble. On one such occasion his friends decide to play a prank, and barge in on the game pretending to be the police—the stress of the experience causes Lao Yu to suffer a stroke, rendering him incapable of caring for himself. Xiao Yu nurses him at home while caring for the baby, hoping that he will recover, but he never does.

Director

Beijing Flickers, 1h36
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Wenwen Han
Rating63% 3.180543.180543.180543.180543.18054
San Bao hasn’t spoken in 127 days, not since his girlfriend left him for a much richer man, his dog ran away, and he lost both his job and his apartment. Faced with all these failures, he tries to kill himself, and even fails at that. Meanwhile, Wang Ming drives expensive cars and worries his actress girlfriend will leave him, too. Youzi’s roommate is given to a Big Boss by her own rich-guy boyfriend, leaving Youzi alone. Together they and others form a community of outcasts, left behind by prosperity, and reminded of it every day.
Dada's Dance, 1h31
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama
Actors Zhao Tao
Rating69% 3.4887953.4887953.4887953.4887953.488795
'When she returns to the city, things take a turn for the worse as Dada puts into motion a sequence ofDada' (Li Xinyun) is a young woman living in an unnamed central China city (filming took place in Wuhan) with her divorced mother (Gai Ke) and her mother's leering boyfriend (Wu Lanhui). Her neighbor, Zhao Ye (Li Xiaofeng) spies on her through her open window each morning as she dances to salsa music and gets ready for the day. Dada, knowing of his crush, teases him mercilessly.
Little Red Flowers, 1h32
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about children
Rating66% 3.3417353.3417353.3417353.3417353.341735
Le petit Qiang, quatre ans, est placé par son père dans un internat. Les enfants qui s'y comportent bien gagnent de petites fleurs de papier rouge, en récompense pour leur bon comportement. Mais Qiang ne parvient pas à récolter les fleurs, c'est un petit garçon désobéissant et tête brûlée. Le petit garçon se rebelle de plus en plus contre la rigueur des institutrices, et il parvient à entraîner ses camarades avec lui.
Green Tea
Green Tea (2003)
, 1h23
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhao Wei, Jiang Wen, Zhang Yuan
Rating64% 3.2482953.2482953.2482953.2482953.248295
A conservative Beijing graduate student name Wu Fang (Zhao Wei) goes on a series of blind dates. Sensitive to slights and the advances of the men, she often becomes offended and leaves halfway through the dates, though sometimes it is the men who leave first, annoyed by her behavior. On one date she meets Chen Minglian (Jiang Wen), whose fiancee had recently left him after having an affair with another man. Their initial date is an unmitigated disaster. Mingliang discusses her fortune-telling friend who Mingliang scoffs at, and Wu Fang walks out when Mingliang asks her how many previous boyfriends she has had. When he chases after her suggesting that they get a room in the local hotel, she slaps him and takes a taxi to get away from him. However, Mingliang pursues Fang who, while initially resistant, agrees to go on additional dates with Mingliang.
I Love You
I Love You (2002)
, 1h37
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama, Romance
Rating67% 3.383093.383093.383093.383093.38309
Du Xiaoju (Xu Jinglei) and Wang Yi (Tong Dawei) are two people in their 20s living in contemporary Beijing. As the film opens, Xiaoju is about to marry one of Yi's friends. Before the day of the wedding, her fiancé inadvertently commits suicide by diving into an empty swimming pool while drunk. Devastated, Xiaoju becomes increasingly close to Wang Yi, which causes them to fall in love and marry.
Seventeen Years, 1h30
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama
Actors Li Bingbing (李冰冰)
Rating69% 3.487363.487363.487363.487363.48736
The film takes place in and around the city of Tianjin, in northeastern China. Two divorced singles (Liang Song and Le Yeping), marry, each bringing a daughter into their new home. Xiaolan (Li Jun), short haired is fiercely independent and wishes to work in a factory after she graduates from high school. Her stepsister, Xiaoqin (Liu Lin), is more intellectual, and wishes to enter a university. After a dispute over a mere 5 yuan that Xiaoqin accuses Xiaolan of stealing, Xiaolan hits her stepsister over the head. To the surprise of everyone, Xiaoqin succumbs to the injury and dies and Xiaolan is led to jail.
East Palace, West Palace, 1h30
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Hu Jun, Zhao Wei
Rating62% 3.148323.148323.148323.148323.14832
A Lan est un jeune écrivain gay. Arrêté par la police, il se sent attiré par l'inspecteur chargé de l'interroger. Il va faire exprès de prolonger l'entretien, en racontant sa vie et la difficulté de vivre son homosexualité en Chine.
The Square
The Square (1994)
, 1h40
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Documentary
Rating70% 3.532753.532753.532753.532753.53275
Beijing Bastards, 1h28
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Musical
Actors Coco Lee
Rating53% 2.6831652.6831652.6831652.6831652.683165
Mama
Mama (1990)
, 1h30
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama
Rating64% 3.247333.247333.247333.247333.24733
The film focuses on a librarian struggling to raise her mentally handicapped son in modern day Beijing while at the same time dealing with an absent and unresponsive husband. The story garnered much criticism from state-censors, who found the film too dark.

Scriptwriter

Beijing Flickers, 1h36
Directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Wenwen Han
Rating63% 3.180543.180543.180543.180543.18054
San Bao hasn’t spoken in 127 days, not since his girlfriend left him for a much richer man, his dog ran away, and he lost both his job and his apartment. Faced with all these failures, he tries to kill himself, and even fails at that. Meanwhile, Wang Ming drives expensive cars and worries his actress girlfriend will leave him, too. Youzi’s roommate is given to a Big Boss by her own rich-guy boyfriend, leaving Youzi alone. Together they and others form a community of outcasts, left behind by prosperity, and reminded of it every day.