Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)

104 min · Drama, drama film

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Directors

Wayne Wang

Cast

Russell Wong, Bingbing Li, Archie Kao, Jun Ji-Hyun, Coco Chiang, Hu Qing Yun

The story

In nineteenth-century China, two girls named Snow Flower (Gianna Jun) and Lily (Li Bing Bing) are forever bonded together as sworn sisters. They are paired as laotong by a matchmaker who is also responsible for arranging their marriages. They are isolated by their families and communicate by writing in a secret sisterly language, Nü shu (a historical practice in China in that period), on a unique Chinese fan that Snow Flower possesses.

Catalogue themes and tags

Altes China, Ancestors, Fan, Friendship, Gegenwart, Hospital, Jugendfreund, Manuscript, New York, Pakt, Promise, Republik China, Retrospective, Seelenverwandtschaft, Shanghai, Stroke of Fate, Unfälle, Zeitgeschichte, bester Freund, female friendship, Period piece, Drama, Chinese Movies, World cinema, Film adaptation

Genres

Drama, drama film

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