{"id":165605,"date":"2025-09-28T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165605\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:55:11","slug":"rotterdam-pingyao-selection-guo-ran-unveils-international-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165605\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam, Pingyao Selection &#8216;Guo Ran&#8217; Unveils International Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe international trailer has been unveiled for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/guo-ran\/\" id=\"auto-tag_guo-ran\" data-tag=\"guo-ran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guo Ran<\/a>,\u201d the latest from director Li Dongmei, whose previous film \u201cMama\u201d premiered at Venice and won best film at the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStarring Li Manxuan (\u201cThe Boy and the Sea\u201d) and Wang Yitong (\u201cJourney to the West\u201d), the film follows a woman in her 30s navigating the emotional aftermath of pregnancy loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDrawing from Dongmei\u2019s own experiences, the film centers on Yu, who begins \u201ca new stage in her life as a newly pregnant mother with joy, expectation, and a bit of uneasiness\u201d before facing the devastating reality when \u201cthe embryo stops developing and there\u2019s no fetal heartbeat anymore,\u201d per the description from production company Leopard Film. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cA silently wrenching second feature from Chinese writer-director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/li-dongmei\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Li Dongmei<\/a>\u00a0that deftly identifies generational malaise in individual crisis,\u201d wrote critic Guy Lodge in <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/reviews\/guo-ran-review-1236298653\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his Variety review<\/a>. \u201cThe kind of brief, intimately scaled chamber drama that often gets labeled a \u2018miniature\u2019 despite vast human stakes at play, the film proves a stealth tearjerker despite the stoic composure of Li\u2019s filmmaking and a precise, achingly contained lead performance by Li Manxuan.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe trailer arrives just ahead of the film\u2019s Asian premiere at the Pingyao International Film Festival on Sept. 27, where it will compete in the Hidden Dragon section. \u201cGuo Ran\u201d made its world bow in Rotterdam\u2019s Tiger Competition earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tProducer Qi Ai (\u201cThe Botanist\u201d) collaborated with a seasoned crew including cinematographer Matthias Delvaux (\u201cSnow Leopard\u201d), editor Qin Yanan (\u201cLong Day\u2019s Journey Into Night\u201d), and production designer Li Xinhe (\u201cAbsence\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 9th Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival is on till Sept. 30, in Pingyao, Shanxi, China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the trailer here:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The international trailer has been unveiled for \u201cGuo Ran,\u201d the latest from director Li Dongmei, whose previous 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