Winter Vacation

A mercilessly deadpan comedy from China that charts the endless boredom of the last day of winter school holidays in a depopulated industrial settlement in remote Inner Mongolia. Described as "South Park in slow motion".

"Li Hongqi has slowly been perfecting his style of drop-deadpan humour with philosophical underpinnings: a kind of minimalist sitcom-Kafka, Kaurismaki-cum-Jarmusch blend that is as mesmerizing as it is hilarious. With Winter Vacation, he hits the bullseye. The mix of slacker teens and semicomatose adults is perfect; with precociously world-weary little children thrown into the mix… The 'action' is punctuated by offbeat chants and a song by China’s most radical independent musician, Zuoxiao Zuzhou." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011)

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