A Love Of Blueness: Reviews

Tailin had loved art since his childhood but when the time came, instead of entering art school, he followed in his father's footsteps and became a policeman. He's become a good policeman but his artistic feelings haven't entirely disappeared. One night on his way home, Tailin comes across a girl trying to climb the structure of a bridge. Beautiful sight, dangerous act. He rushes to stop her. She tells him that she is actually a murderer. He tells her that he is really a policemen. At the police station the girl explains that she had just been looking for new experiences, new sensations that might be of use to her professionally. She's an actress and her name is Luyun.

A few days later Luyun calls Tailin for a date and for help. She's looking for a man named Ma Baiju (white horse). He agrees to lend a hand. They begin meeting regularly and Tailin finds his old artistic feelings revived. Slowly, he begins to fall in love with Luyun, a different kind of love, poetic. It never occurs to them that Ma Baiju may be connected to a murder case that's twenty years old. As their relationship develops, Tailin begins to wonder why Luyun is so interested in finding the man...

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR (Huo Jianqi):
Born in Beijing in 1958, Huo Jianqi graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982 and from 1982 to 1992 he worked as art director on numerous features at the Beijing Film Studio, including Tian Zhuangzhuang's HORSE THIEF. He made his directorial debut in 1995 with THE WINNER, which won several critical awards in China, and he followed that with THE SINGER (1996), POSTMEN IN THE MOUNTAINS, which won the Air Canada Award (public favourite) at the 1999 Montreal World Film Festival.