My Brother Yang
A Donatello award nominated short drama concluding a trilogy of films about a young Chinese girl living clandestinely in Italy.
A Donatello award nominated short drama concluding a trilogy of films about a young Chinese girl living clandestinely in Italy.
Cai Zhi Jian
Yang
Ya Zhi
Bing/Xiao
A Donatello award nominated short drama concluding a trilogy of films about a young Chinese girl living clandestinely in Italy.
Taken as a stand alone short drama, this really isn't up to much at all. We meet a young girl, a fairly exhausted young girl, who arrives at an apartment inhabited by her new brother "Yang" (Cai Zhi Jian). He gives her some papers and now "Bing" becomes "Xiao" (Ya Zhi) and gets some basic Italian drummed into her so she can help him run his clothing stall in the market. How did she arrive? When did she arrive? How old is she? Well suffice to say this girl isn't very communicative beyond explaining that she sort of fell off the back of a lorry from China from where her father sent her. That's it. We know no more and I felt this offered us little but a rather pointless episode in what seems to be the soap opera of her life - with much more to come? He offers us a little more by way of personality but she presents us with little to get our teeth into and at the end I was none the wiser, nor too bothered either. I know there were two films before this, but if this is the conclusion then I'm not sure I'll bother with them.
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