Fang Zhi Gu Niang (Weaving Girl) Movie wins at Montreal World Film Festival

Chinese film “Weaving Girl” grabbed the second highest prize at the closing ceremony of the 33rd Montreal World Film Festival Monday.

“Weaving Girl,” directed by Wang Quan’an and leading actress Yu Nan, tells about the struggled life of a textile factory woman worker. It won both the special Grand Prix of the Jury, the runner-up prize, as well as the International film critics prize.

The top prize, the Grand Prix of the Americas, was won by French director Tony Gatlif’ for his film, “Korkoro”

The Xian textile factory's choir has a tradition of singing Soviet revolutionary songs and the song of the ""Weaving Girl"", paean to a beautiful textile worker, is the choir's classic. A real-life young textile worker, Li Li, who also happens to be a member of the choir, is diagnosed with an apparently incurable disease. After the shock of the diagnosis wears off, Li Li reconciles herself to her mortality and decides to travel and make the best of whatever life she has left. In Beijing he encounters Zhao Luhan, a former workmate. Zhao had played the accordian in the factory chorus and was in love with Li Li but was transferred to Beijing ten years ago. Li Li had written to Zhao but never got a reply. She waited two years and eventually married another man. She brings Zhao up to date about her unfortunate condition and wonders why he never responded. Zhao is shocked. He never received any news from her and assumed that she was had lost interest in him. After a couple of years he heard that Li Li was married and he too decided to move on, eventually marrying another woman. Li Li is deeply affected. Returning home from Beijing she discovers that her husband, Hu Xiaoguang has mortgaged the house and borrowed money to pay for treatment and, hopefully, a cure, of Li Li's disease. Li Li begins to realize that she hasn't always seen clearly in love or life. Big decisions remain to be made...
 

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