Movie

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

96%Critics24 reviews84%Audience95 reviews

8.0321average critics score, out of 1019981h 39mR

Drama

During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Zadong's regime sends countless adolescents, including a bright young girl named Xiu Xiu (Xiaolu Li), to rural lands in order to participate in various kinds of physical labor. Xiu Xiu is torn away from her caring relatives and close friends to live and work with Lao Jin (Lopsang), a rancher. Though he treats Xiu Xiu kindly, she yearns for her old life and eventually turns to a degrading life of prostitution in hopes of earning the means to return home.

Directed by:

Joan Chen