I Love You (2002)

Curiosità

I Love You is a 2002 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yuan and starring Xu Jinglei and Tong Dawei. The film was a co-production between the Xi'an Film Studio and Jewel Film Investment Company.

Production

By the early 2000s, Zhang Yuan had decided to make a romance film, a genre he had never tackled before. Upon mentioning this to his friend, author Wang Shuo, the latter suggested that he adapt one of his old novels, Get a Kick and Die (sometimes translated as Live it up before You Die). Reading the book, Zhang agreed, though he moved the story's action forward from the 1980s to present day Beijing.

Filming took only a month, and the entire shoot used only a single camera. Zhang has noted that he chose this style of filming in part to utilize long-takes. Additionally, it allowed him to focus on single characters while filming, with reactions of other characters only being implied by the reactions by the camera's subject.

Zhang has spoken about what he was attempting to capture for the film:

"I wanted [the actors] to capture the depression, the psychological imbalance, and mixture of love and hate that so many people experience when they are caught up in a difficult relationship. At the same time, I also wanted their performances to reflect the almost schizophrenic division symptomatic of living during these times in this society."

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