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Zhang Yimou’s ‘One Second’ set for release
    2020-10-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

RENOWNED Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s love letter to cinema, the period drama “One Second,” is finally headed to cinemas. The film will be released Nov. 27.

“One Second” originally was set to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2019, but it was removed from the lineup at the last minute with producers citing “technical issues.”

The new version of “One Second” runs 104 minutes. Zhang and some of his actors also returned to the Gobi Desert in China’s Gansu Province over the past year to conduct reshoots.

Starring Zhang Yi and Fan Wei, “One Second” is said to be Zhang’s most personal project in years, one he had been wanting to make for nearly a decade.

Set during China’s 1966-76 Cultural Revolution period, “One Second”  was said to center on an ex-con and young woman bound together by parallel pursuits of an enigmatic film reel — one of the ubiquitous news reels that were transported across the countryside during the 1960s and 70s for the entertainment of rural villagers. The man, recently escaped from a Cultural Revolution prison farm, has reason to believe the reel contains a glimpse — lasting just a single second — of his beloved, deceased daughter. The girl played by Fan Wei carries her own desperate motives stemming from a personal loss and a hoped-for shot at redemption.

Early marketing positioned the film as Zhang’s ode to lost time and his personal love letter to cinema.

The movie nonetheless will be hitting Chinese screens at a moment of abundant market potential. With COVID-19 effectively suppressed in China, the country’s cinemas are operating at 75 percent of usual seating capacity and moviegoers have returned to the multiplex en masse. Chinese theaters brought in a whopping US$544 million in ticket sales during the recent weeklong National Day holiday.   (SD-Agencies)

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