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...Beidi Gu ’05 and Minhua Zhang...
When Beidi Gu ’05 and Minhua Zhang ’05 first met at their Shanghai middle school, sparks didn’t exactly fly. The two had been chosen to co-host the school’s Christmas concert, but Ms. Gu was nervous around her fellow emcee. “He was very famous because he was on student council,” she says. “I was so nervous I didn’t even look...
...Cabot: Kerry J. Dingle, Philip D. Dreyfuss, Richard E. Freeman, Xiaoyu Gu, Kamila M. Lis, Henry M. Rosenberg, Sixiao Xu, Oussama Zahr
...rich as the cinematography, and moments of great poignancy?the mother's efforts to persuade the prettiest girl in town to have dinner with her retarded son, the lengths to which the sister goes to defend her brothers from bullies?temper the hardness the Gao children sometimes display. Gu packs his film with vivid period details: boys play hacky-sack with a flaming chestnut, a couple preserves eggs in handfuls of sticky mud, a family's supply of coal dissolves under a sudden rain. The camerawork is flawless; the takes long and sinuous...
...bicycle. When a real peacock appears in the movie's quiet coda, it declines to spread its plumage on demand and the onlookers move on, disappointed. Its splendor, like the Gao children's dreams, remains unfledged and all-too-rarely glimpsed. Fortunately, this is not the case with Gu's talents. He unfolds them masterfully and his Peacock is a marvel that deserves to be admired...