Bitter Flowers

Thirtysomething Chinese-born Lina borrows money to move to Paris to save up money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, leaving behind her husband and son in Dong Bei province. But once in Europe, nothing goes as planned, and she is forced into a line of work she never would have imagined. When her flighty sister-in-law shows up on her doorstep, Lina becomes inevitably tangled in her own web of lies.

Keywords

  • Asia
  • Best first feature
  • BRIFF
  • Chinese Cinema
  • Les Magritte du Cinéma
  • Love Story

Actors

  • Xi Qi
  • Meihuizi Zeng
  • Le Geng
  • Lizhe Fan
  • Sâm Mirhosseini
  • Gaowei Qu
  • Xi Wang

Director

  • Olivier Meys

Drama

1h 36min

-12

ZH

NL

FR

Belgium
2017
Thirtysomething Chinese-born Lina borrows money to move to Paris to save up money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, leaving behind her husband and son in Dong Bei province. But once in Europe, nothing goes as planned, and she is forced into a line of work she never would have imagined. When her flighty sister-in-law shows up on her doorstep, Lina becomes inevitably tangled in her own web of lies.

Thirtysomething Chinese-born Lina borrows money to move to Paris to save up money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, leaving behind her husband and son in Dong Bei province. But once in Europe, nothing goes as planned, and she is forced into a line of work she never would have imagined. When her flighty sister-in-law shows up on her doorstep, Lina becomes inevitably tangled in her own web of lies.


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