My Fair Son
| My Fair Son | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Cui Zi'en |
| Produced by | Shining Liu Weiming Wang |
| Written by | Cui Zi'en |
| Starring | Junrui Wang Weiming Wang Bo Yu Guifeng Wang Ziqiang Li |
| Music by | Guofeng Wang |
| Cinematography | Jin Yang |
| Edited by | Ziyi Qi Ningning Zu |
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Production
company |
Cuizi DV Studio
Milimitel Film |
| Distributed by | dGenerate Films Water Bearer Films |
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Release dates
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2005 |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country |  China |
| Language | Mandarin |
My Fair Son (Chinese: 我如花似玉的儿子) is a 2005 Chinese gay-themed film (first released for public exhibition in the United States in 2009), by Chinese film director Cui Zi'en.[1] The main characters are Rui (Ray) and the object of his affection, Bo, an employee of his father. The film contains full-frontal male nudity.[1][2]
Contents
Plot
A teenage boy, Ray, returns home from a life with his grandfather to live with his father after they have been estranged for several years. During the period of their estrangement, Ray spent much of his youth rebelling against his father's lifestyle. After he enrolls in art school, Ray becomes romantically involved in a relationship with another male student, and the pair soon become lovers. His father discovers the two young men in bed together, and begins to understand what it really means to be homosexual. Ray then meets one of his father's employees, Bo, and falls in love with him, too. Bo is engaged, and admits to Ray's father that he is in love with his son.[1][3][4] The father fires Bo and lies to Ray that he left on his own will. The doesn't accept his father's argument. The film ends with ray roaming on terrace with floating transparent images of his childhood pictures.
Cast
- Junrui Wang ... Xiao Rui (Ray)
- Weiming Wang ... Father of Xiao Rui
- Yu Bo ... Xiao Bo
- Guifeng Wang ... Unnamed first boyfriend of Xiao Rui
- Ziqiang Li ... Unnamed friend of Xiao Rui
See also
- List of Chinese films of 2005
- List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films
- List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-related films by storyline
- Nudity in film (East Asian cinema since 1929)
References
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). My Fair Son at IMDb
- Filmmaker Cui Zi'en on dGenerate Films website
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Queering Chinese Comrades - Through the Lens of Director Cui Zi. Audrey Tse. www.academia.edu. Retrieved: 25 April 2014.
- ↑ My Fair Son. Publisher: IMDB. Retrieved: 25 April 2014.
- ↑ Drama - My Fair Son. Publisher: Water Bearer Films. Retrieved: 25 April 2014.
- ↑ My Fair Son. Author: Jason Buchanan. Publisher: AllMovie.com Retrieved: 25 April 2014.
