
© Cheng Cheng Films . . . This year, a completely new - and amazing - trend in Chinese cinema began to read between the lines of festival programs and prize lists. The hardcore social realism of the directors of the so -called sixth generation (Jia Zhanke, Li Yan, Lowe e) is replaced by the poetization of everyday life - the trend is still not very clear, but rather discouraging. Young directors of the seventh generation use the familiar instruments of Chinese realism already familiar to us - affordable digital cameras, hyperrealist long -term personnel, proletarian aesthetics of poverty, provincial decline and industrialization - in new, however, clear, goals. Poetry penetrates in the barracks and on dirty barges, mines and gangster raspberries (including literally in the form of a poetic text) and irrational. The narrative, and before it is not always clear and action-packed, is eroded to the state of the landscape-and behind it, still sad and urban, ghostly silhouettes of the original conceptual Tarkovsky and Marquez are visible.