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    Winter Vacation (Hanjia)

    Presented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre

    July 23, 2011

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    Winter Vacation (Hanjia)

    In a wintry industrial town in Inner Mongolia, a group of adolescent slackers listlessly loiter on the last day of their two-week holiday. Poet-filmmaker Li Hongqi’s deadpan comedy, slowed by its characters’ boredom to a pace of absurd poetry, wrings laughter from hopelessness and frustration; While the teenagers bicker over the value of school and the vagaries of teenage love, a young boy trapped in a domestic battle with his...

    In a wintry industrial town in Inner Mongolia, a group of adolescent slackers listlessly loiter on the last day of their two-week holiday. Poet-filmmaker Li Hongqi’s deadpan comedy, slowed by its characters’ boredom to a pace of absurd poetry, wrings laughter from hopelessness and frustration; While the teenagers bicker over the value of school and the vagaries of teenage love, a young boy trapped in a domestic battle with his grandfather, who won’t let him play outside, proposes running away with a little girl so that they can be orphans. Faced with the alternative, it’s a sensible dream.


    Paramount Theatre

    559 Washington Street
    Boston, MA 02111

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    Admission Info:

    $10

    $7.50 for Members & Seniors

    $5 for Students.


    General Day and Time Info:

    7pm


    Phone: 617-824-8000


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