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Cui Zi'en

ET comes from Mars to the Earth. Here he is brought home by Xiao Bo who is very attentive to ET, enthusiastically showing him what the Earth looks like. Xiao BoŠs girlfriend, not managing to distract the boy from ET, decides to get revenge trying to have a mixed earthling-martian baby with ET. But ET ends up losing consciousness and is then awaken by Xiao Bo, come to his rescue. ET, who survives merely on sunlight, never taking any food or drink, gradually experiences various aspects of life on Earth, learning how to love as well as what the physical limitations of humans are. On the eve of his return to Mars, ET uses the ultimate human way of expressing love and makes love to Xiao Bo. Not long after ET has left the Earth, Xiao Bo, who was "infected" by a certain Martian quality during lovemaking, comes back to where they first met, and discovers the way to Mars. .

 
 

Screenplay Cui Zi En
Photography (colour) Zhang Hui Lin

Editing Mao Zheng
Music Zhang Jian
ICast Yu Bo, Wang Gui Feng, Zhang Xi Wen
Production Liu Shu Jing, Zhao Song Bo, Du Jia Yi
Year of production 2004
Running time 86'

 

Cui Zi'en

Cui Zi En is a movie director and a novelist. He published ten novels in Mainland China, Hong Kong and USA. He started his career directing short films, Mass (2001) and The Positive and Negative Parties of Public Toilet (2001), and then turned to feature movies with Jiu Yue (The Old Testament, 2002), Enter the Clowns (2002) presented at the fourth edition of Asiaticafilmmediale, Feeding Boys, Ayaya (2003).

 

 


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