LFM wants to congratulate the team of Mao’s Last Dancer for sharing the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Provincetown International Film Festival this past weekend.
Mao’s Last Dancer will be released later this year, and is directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) and stars Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen and Chi Cao in the lead role. We’ve posted on this film previously, and we’re looking forward to its U.S. release later this summer.
Mao’s Last Dancer takes place in the 1960’s-70’s, and tells the true story of Chinese ballet dancer Li Cunxin – who was taken from his impoverished family in rural China at the age of 11 by the Communist Chinese to train as a dancer in Madame Mao’s dance school in Beijing. The young Li soon became a star pupil due to his talent and indomitable work ethic – and at age 18 was given the opportunity to participate in the first cultural exchange program between Communist China and America, where he would eventually dance for the Houston Ballet Company.
The movie’s advocacy of democratic freedom appears to be refreshingly unapologetic. [See the trailer here.]
Mao’s Last Dancer has been picked up for distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films, and is currently set for a limited U.S. release this August 20, 2010.
Posted on June 21st, 2010 at 2:05pm.
Wow! What a handsome leading man. I look forward to seeing this when it comes out. Loved the dancing in the trailer.