Director Ann Hui (center) poses with actresses Tian Yuan (left) and Tang Wei during the 71st Venice International Film Festival on Sept 6.
Hong Kong director Ann Hui believes Xiao Hong is more than just an artist.
"She is an artist Troy Apke Jersey , and I have always wanted to make a film about an artist. But I dealt with her more like an ordinary woman," Hui told Xinhua in an interview as her new film The Golden Era closed the Venice International Film Festival on Sept 14.
The Golden Era is an unconventional biopic of Xiao Hong, a female writer who is well known Geron Christian Jersey , yet about whom many details remain obscure. The film pieces together episodes from her writings with impressions and recollections from other writers and friends.
Xiao Hong lived through the most turbulent times in modern Chinese history. Her birth in 1911 in Heilongjiang province coincided with the country's shift from dynastic imperial rule to a modern republic. So she grew up in an environment that was open to foreign cultural influences for the first time in centuries.
Much of her stormy life was spent with fellow writers, including Lu Xun, who's widely recognized as China's greatest modern novelist and in whom she found a considerate surrogate father. After escaping the Japanese invasion of China Preston Smith Jersey , Xiao died of tuberculosis in Hong Kong at the age of 31.
"I was fascinated by her lifestyle and efforts in art. She had a revolutionary attitude toward human relations, "Hui says.
"Xiao Hong turned against her family and had an intense love life. If we look at it today, what she did has become the norm for modern women.
"Xiao Hong was avant-garde. She believed in writing for the sake of literature and not for any kind of propaganda. This was a very different idea from the preferred attitude of that time Brandon Scherff Jersey , when a lot of intellectuals wanted to write only to foster the anti-Japanese cause. She was sympathetic to them but was still convinced that writing is pure literature."
Hui explains her film was mostly shot on real locations, including old, preserved buildings in different places of China Montae Nicholson Jersey , such as Harbin, Wuhan and Shanghai.
"Unfortunately, I could not find a single building left in Hong Kong from those years Samaje Perine Jersey ," she says.
"We used an extreme format that is very experimental to make the story even more interesting to the audience."
Different subjects and faces have fascinated the director since she started her career in the 1970s, she says. "At the beginning I was very attracted by melodrama, suspense movies Fabian Moreau Jersey , violence, kung fu movies. Then, in the middle Ryan Anderson Jersey , I began to like very static movies about thought, which had to do with how I felt and changed personally," she explains.
"Now I am interested in how people behave and live their own lives Jonathan Allen Jersey , especially when they are very ordinary. For this reason, despite the historical and intellectual background, I think this movie is not difficult for the general audience to understand. Human nature Derrius Guice Jersey , love and betrayal are common themes all over the world."
Hui was born in 1947 in Harbin to a Chinese father and Japanese mother. She studied for two years at London Film School after graduating with a Hong Kong University degree in comparative literature. She is the only director to have won the Best Director prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards four times.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Senior leaders at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) manipulated intelligence assessments on the campaign against the extremist group the Islamic State (IS) to present a rosier picture, a U.S. House preliminary report said on Thursday.
The 15-page report by a House Republican task force detailed "persistent problems" at the CENTCOM starting in mid-2014 that caused "production and dissemination of intelligence products that were inconsistent with the judgements" of senior CENTCOM analysts.
According to the report, the leadership environment within the CENTCOM deteriorated after then-commander Marine General James Mattis and other senior leaders left in 2013, with 40 percent of CENTCOM analysts responding to surveys saying that they had experienced an attempt to distort or suppress intelligence in the past year.
Two patterns existed in the senior-level edit of intelligence assessments, said the report, with the CENTCOM senior leaders using operational reporting as a "justification to alter or 'soften' an analytic product so it would cast U.S. efforts in a more positive light."
Additionally, analysts said senior leaders consistently "softened" intelligence assessments to provide more uncertainty about possible outcomes.
As a result, analysis assessments by CENTCOM consistently depicted U.S. actions "in a more positive light" than other assessments from the U.S. Intelligence Community and were "typically more optimistic than actual events warranted," the report concluded.
The report cited CENTCOM's assessment about the campaign to retake Mosul, Iraq's second largest city still controlled by IS, as an example.
Despite a CENTCOM senior official's public claim that a major military assault to take back Mosul "could begin as early as April or May 2015," as of August 2016, Mosul remains under IS control and there has been no major military assault to retake it.
Allegations of senior-level manipulation of counter-IS intelligence assessments at CENTCOM first surfaced in July, 2015, when two senior analysts at CENTCOM filed a written complaint to the U.S. Defense Department inspector general, saying that their reports on the anti-IS campaign, some of which were for Obama, played down the real significance of the threat posed by the militant group.
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