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Happy
Times
(Xingfu Shiguang)
China, 2000.
Directed by Zhang Yimou, written by Gui Zi. Starring Zhao Benshan,
Dong Jie, Li Xuejian. Produced by Edward R. Pressman, Terrence
Malick, Wang Wei. In Mandarin with English subtitles, 106 minutes,
rated PG. Sony Pictures Classics.
If Happy
Times were Japanese, it would be a haiku: a poem springing
from a few words about ordinary things. But Zhang Yimou's latest
film, with its joyous blend of good old common sense, nonsense
and circumlocutory versions of the truth, is unquestionably Chinese.
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