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I Love Beijing
(Xiari nuan yangyang)

Screening on Film
Directed by Ning Ying.
With Yu Lei, Zuo Baitao, Tao Hong, Gai Yi.
China, 2001, 35mm, color, 97 min.
Chinese with English subtitles.

I Love Beijing is the final work in Ning Ying’s trilogy of wry portrayals of Beijingers attempting to adjust to the fast-changing pace of contemporary China. Here, she focuses on Dezi, a Beijing cabbie who maintains a second life as a would-be Casanova. The changing array of passengers in his yellow minivan provides a microcosm of the urban scene—one that at times exceeds his ability to comprehend. His capacity for women, however, has no limits. He ventures through a summer-long series of short-lived relationships with women from all segments of society: a provincial waitress, a popular radio-show host, a school teacher, and a peasant from the countryside. Along the way, he is scammed, confused, used, and even loved a little.

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