浮果 (2015)

Curiosidades

• Filmado em: Chengdu

Floating Melon is a 2015 Spanish and Chinese co-production drama film written and directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi. It is a low budget independent short movie produced by Almost Red Productions (China) in association with Arkadín Ediciones (Spain). It was shot in Chengdu, using the local dialect of the region, the Sichuanese Mandarin.

Production and directors commentary

Floating Melon (Fu Guo) was shot in Chengdu. The principal photography took place in September 2015 and the post-production was completed in October 2015. It was produced by Almost Red Productions (company owned by the directors in China) in association with the Spanish company Arkadin Ediciones.

According to the directors, the main difficulty in the production was the casting. "It was complicated to find a group of suitable actor that were interested in play gay characters and also were not scared of play some explicit scenes. Finally we collaborate with non professional actors. Also the production maintained a low profile to avoid the strong censhorship laws in China."

The directors comment about the film in these terms: "Floating Melon is a fiction film, but inspired by characters that are present in the Chinese contemporary society. It reflects, with a film “noir genre” perspective in stylistic and narrative terms, the story of a young guy that cannot react in a situation that is beyond his imaginations.

The representation of the characters is very close to reality and their reactions towards the situations reflect the Chinese society of these days. Also it represents this invisible community, the LGBT, that it is not as persecuted as in other countries, but for family pressures and the lack of protective laws, it need to be self protected.

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