the booklet.

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樓
蘭
Loulan Beauty
姑
娘
Loulan Beauty
a Ronin Hsu film
Ronin Hsu
Technical Information
Working title: Loulan Beauty
Director: Ronin Hsu
Screenplay by: Ronin Hsu
Nationality: Chinese
Genre: Drama
Format: HD / Final 35 mm
Length: 120 min.
Shooting location: China
un film de Ronin Hsu
Production Company: Les concerto image
Producer: Ronin Hsu
Email: [email protected]
Tel: + 852 30 69 63 46 / Fax: + 852 30 69 63 47
Address: Unit 04, 7/F, Bright Way Tower, No.33 Mong
Kok Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Tel: + 86 1 38 23 55 40 66 (China)
Tel: + 852 69 48 99 56 (Hong-Kong)
Co-Production Company: Acrobates Films
Producer: Claire Lajoumard
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +33 06 10 32 86 07
Address: 49 rue des Poissonniers, 75018 Paris, France
Director’s Biography and Filmography
Ronin HSU was born in October 23, 1984. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in film writing
and directing from the Central Academy of Drama in China.
His graduation film, The Annunciation (86’), was selected for the International Film Festival
Rotterdam 2010.
Résidence du Festival
Festival de Cannes
3, rue Amélie, F-75007 Paris
Tel. 33 (0) 1 53 59 61 20
Fax 33 (0) 1 53 59 61 24
E-mail:
[email protected]
www.festival-cannes.org
Since 2000, the Festival
Residence has provided each year
accommodation and support to
twelve selected young directors
in order to help them prepare
their first or second feature film.
A jury presided by a film director
sits twice a year, selecting these
young filmmakers on the basis
of their short films, or even first
With the support of HP. Printed on an HP Indigo Digital Press.
feature film, and the merits of
their feature film project.
During their 4-and-a-half-month
stay in Paris, they work on the
writing of their feature film project, have meetings with professionals and try, with the support
of the Cannes Film Festival, to
bring their project to co-production status.
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INTENTION NOTE / NOTE D’INTENTION
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temprate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed:
And every fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long live this, and this gives life to thee…
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
Oghuz is an 18-year-old Uyghur. His father abandoned the
family to go to Turkey when he was two years old and
he was raised by his single mother in a small village on the
western border of the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Oghuz has always
wanted to know what’s on the other side of the Taklamakan
desert, but has never been given a satisfactory answer.
To get money for his mother’s illness, and to have right to marry
his lover, Oghuz asks wealthy big shot Nurhan to take
him to inland China. But Nurhan turns out to be the chief
of a group of Uyghur bandits. Young Oghuz is forced to
become a thief and, over time, loses his friends, his lover, his
family and even his faith. Although he proudly struggles on,
Oghuz’ destiny is a dramatic one with no hope of redemption. The Uyghurs are condemned by almighty Allah, on
the other side of the Taklamakan desert there is only the ruin
of an ancient Uyghur kingdom that is several thousand
years old.
Oghuz est un Ouïgour de 18 ans. Son père a abandonné
sa famille pour aller en Turquie quand il avait deux ans.
Il a été élevé par sa mère dans un petit village au bord du
désert du Takla-Makan, dans la Région autonome ouïgoure
du Xinjiang, en Chine. Il demande toujours ce qu’il y a
de l’autre côté du désert, mais n’obtient aucune réponse
satisfaisante. Comme il cherche à gagner de l’argent afin
de pouvoir faire soigner sa mère et épouser celle qu’il aime,
il demande à Nurhan, un gros bonnet, de l’emmener
à l’intérieur de la Chine. Mais Nurhan est en fait à la tête
d’un groupe de voleurs ouïgours. Forcé à voler, le jeune
Oghuz, le temps passant, perd peu à peu ses amis, son amour,
sa famille, et même la foi. Oghuz se bat avec dignité
mais son destin est tragique avec aucun espoir de rédemption.
Les Ouïgours sont condamnés par Allah le Tout-Puissant.
De l’autre côté du désert du Takla-Makan, il n’y a rien si ce n’est
les ruines d’un ancien royaume Ouïgour dont l’histoire
remonte à plusieurs milliers d’années.