Chinese Landscape Painting Film Series Will Run to a Fourth Installment, Says ‘First Taste of Loneliness’ Director Gu You (EXCLUSIVE)

By Naman Ramachandran

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Chinese filmmaker Gu You‘s films modeled on Chinese landscape painting will not stop at three.

The director of “The First Taste of Loneliness,” which world premiering in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, tells Variety that a fourth installment is already in research and development, and that it may lean toward genre.

The new film follows three generations of women who face loneliness for the first time after the death of a much-loved father. Zhou Xun, Xi Meijuan and Wang Shengdi star. Losange Films handles international sales on the China-France coproduction, which Hangzhou Shanshui Films produced with France’s Tandem Films. Tandem will also release it in France. Shan Zuolong and Du Kexin produced, and Gu wrote the screenplay with Yang Yikun.

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