Ermo

Ermo (1995)

二嫫

Trapped between two good men and a 29-inch TV set.

A humble noodle-maker in a remote Chinese province, Ermo feels that she's being taken for granted by family and friends. She decides the best way to impress them is to bring home the biggest, most expensive television set she can find - no matter how many noodles she has to peddle.

Date of release
1995-05-12
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Zhou Xiaowen

Casting

Interesting facts

Ermo is a Chinese comedy/drama film, released in 1994 and directed by Zhou Xiaowen. It is essentially a satire on Western consumerism and its influence on Chinese culture.

Filming

Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China, wrote that the narrative's space in Ermo has a "sense of desperation and inevitability" because the film's narrative was "filmed in a series of claustrophobic places".

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