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Up the Yangtze

By: Phillip Scott

Topics: FLICS, Fox Theater, China, cruise, movie, film, travelogue
Originally posted on SWVoice Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:46:22 PDT
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Start: Sep 12, 2008
End: Sep 12, 2008
Time: 7:30pm
Price: $5, Season $50 (17 films)
Contact: Phil Neufeld | pneufeld@yahoo.com | (661) 325-4815
Location: 2001 H Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301

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FLICS presents Up the Yangtze

Join the party as FLICS celebrates its new season. Take a cruise up the Yangtze in China. Doors at the Majestic Fox Theater open at 6:30 pm.

Dir: Yung Chang, Canada, 2008, 93 min, PG

In China, it is simply known as 'The River.' But the Yangtze and all of the life that surrounds it is undergoing an astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfathers youth to trace the surreal life of a farewell cruise that traverses the gargantuan waterway. With a humanist gaze and wry wit Chang’s Upstairs Downstairs approach captures the microcosmic society of the luxury liner. Below deck: a bewildered young girl trains as a dishwasher sent to work by her peasant family, who is on the verge of relocation from the encroaching flood waters. Above deck: wealthy international tourists set sail to catch a last glance of a country in dramatic flux. The teenage employees who serve and entertain them tagged with new Westernized names like Cindy and Jerry by upper management warily grasp at the prospect of a better future. "Up the Yangtze" gives a human dimension to the wrenching changes facing not only an increasingly globalized China, but the world at large.

In English, Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles

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