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11 Flowers(我11)

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China, France · 2011
1h 50m
Director Wang Xiaoshuai
Starring Liu Wenqing, Yan Ni
Genre Drama

A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugative and struggles to understand the adult world. This story, set during China's Cultural Revolution, follows curious 11 year old Wang Han and his attempts to comprehend the complex adult world around him. As Wang Han chases after a prized shirt that was stolen from him, he meets a fugitive who has a quest of his own. Though Wang Han can't fully grasp the fugitive's mission, slowly, the world around him --- and all its perplexities --- seems to reveal itself.

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Slant Magazine by

Because of its choice in subjectivity, and despite the film's historical context, 11 Flowers firmly elevates the experience of the personal over the political.

60

Time Out by David Fear

Once the murderer starts relying on the lad’s kindness, all the preceding kid stuff starts to take on a purposefully sour tang.

60

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Wang Xiaoshuai’s gently engrossing coming-of-age tale isn’t strikingly unique, but it does possess the heartfelt confidence that comes from autobiographical influence — and natural talent.

63

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

11 Flowers boils down to a coming-of-age tale merged with a why-dunit — not unlike “To Kill a Mockingbird” — but the plot is molasses-slow, as threads are dropped, picked up and dropped again.

90

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Delicate and autobiographical (Wang Han was the director’s name when he was a child, and the story is constructed from his boyhood memories), 11 Flowers clings steadfastly to its youthful point of view.

80

NPR by Mark Jenkins

His latest, the earthy yet subtly evocative 11 Flowers, is in the same mode as the one that's best known in the U.S., 2001's "Beijing Bicycle." Both are simple, resonant tales of youths who have something taken from them.

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