Flash info : How is Your Fish today ? - Guo Xiaolu

Guo Xiaolu, artiste chinoise de renom de par ses livres et ses films vient une nouvelle fois d'être récompensé il y a deux semaines au Festival intenational des Femmes de Créteil avec son long métrage How is your Fish today ?
Déja primé à Fribourg et Rotterdam, la romancière du Village de Pierre (édition Picquier) mêle ici la fiction au documentaire.

Je vous laisse pour une fois faire le boulot à ma place avec la lecture en anglais du synopsis:
A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the northern border.Sitting at his desk in Beijing, a scriptwriter is writing that man’s story.

It is through his characters that his life gains its weight, meaning and freedom. His imagination blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.The snowy village lies on the quiet border between China and Russia. Old villagers fish under the ice, school children study English text about America. They endure the long winter nights waiting for the sun to come back.When the scriptwriter arrives in that mysterious village, he meets his own fictional character, lying on the frozen river at the border, covered in snow.Two men contemplate the icy landscape. One wants to cross the border to see the other side of the world. The other longs to head back to his hometown, which he left so many years ago.
Un long métrage qui, esperons, aura le droit à plus de considérations de la part des éditeurs français. Cela changerait évidemment de la politique actuelle de l'édition des films chinois, à savoir "zéro film", ou presque. Grrrr!

Damien Paccellieri