Mr. Sheng's Flowers (2016)

Director: Zhu Yuancheng

Starring: Yan Bingyan / Wang Deshun / Arya / Li Naiwen | China

Duration: 90 minutes

Language: Mandarin/Shaanxi dialect

Subtitles: Chinese

Film introduction: Cotton is a nanny hired by the Sheng family to take care of his father with Alzheimer's disease, but he did not expect to be mistaken by the old man with Alzheimer's as his wife who had died for many years. The old man often climbed into the cotton bed, which made the cotton very embarrassed, and also made the old man's daughter full of suspicion and wariness of her. Suddenly, one day, Cotton discovers that she is pregnant, and the Sheng family's daughter investigates the child's bloodline. While Cotton wants to hide this matter, she also worries about whether to keep this child and accompany herself through the rest of her life because she confirms that her husband who has been away for many years is dead.

"Mr. Sheng's Flowers" is the graduate school graduation work of director Zhu Yuancheng, whose skillful directing skills make it difficult to believe that this film is just his feature-length debut, this film was a blockbuster at the 2016 Shanghai International Film Festival, winning four awards such as the most media-concerned film, the most media-concerned newcomer director, the most media-concerned actress and the most media-concerned supporting actress in the media attention unit of the movie channel.

The jury commented: "Director Zhu Yuancheng completed a wonderful expression with super high control, the whole film is properly paced, and the ending is full of meaning, which is worth experiencing again and again." ”

Director Zhu Yuancheng once mentioned that he liked the Japanese director Kore-eda. Judging from "Mr. Sheng's Flowers", the director is well versed in his white painting and tells the problems of population aging and old-age care faced by contemporary society in a realistic tone. The film is close to the creation of life and does not lack dramatic conflicts, just like casting a gentle "bomb" in the social torrent of rapid progress, arousing the attention and attention of society to the issue of old-age care.

Editor: Zhou Qinghui