Buddha Mountain

This new Chinese movie center on around the quartet as they clash over values, romance and the generational divide, only resolved when the four travel together to a mountain to help rebuild a temple destroyed during the Sichuan earthquake.

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Genres: Romance
Director: Yu Li
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Sylvia Chang, Bo-lin Chen
Also Known As: Guan yin shan
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Release Date: 4 March 2011 (China)
Runtime: 102 min

Plot Summary:
In Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, three best friends Ding Bo (Chen Po-lin), Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fatso (Fei Long) move a new accommodation, that belong to a retired Chinese opera singer Chang Yue Qin (Sylvia Chang), — a widow who has lost her son in a car accident. Ding Bo estranged from his father after his mother dies and his father married a new young wife. Nan Feng, an outwardly tough young woman from a small town outside Chengdu who sings in a bar, leaving a family of violence and alcoholism. Severely abused and often bullied, Fatso makes faithful pals with Ding Bo and Nan Feng. As they gradually get to know each other, and their constant clash turns into mutual caring, an unexpected event would give them a new understanding of the meaning of love, life, and loss.

"Buddha Mountain" Review:
Buddha Mountain is a symbolic film to a certain extent: there are three recurrent themes which it revolves around, namely roads and railroads, destruction/reconstruction and life/death. The roads seem to signify changes, while the earthquake shattered town and temple stand for the four's lives – reconstructed in a way. This is a story about life, death and youth.

Imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745713/

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOcgxmuuLxk

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