The Cloud in Her Room
This mesmerizing debut feature from Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan—winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival’s top prize—is an autobiographically tinged portrait of a 22-year-old woman drifting through her days and nights after returning to her hometown to celebrate the New Year with her parents, and unable to let go of her past.
The Cloud in Her Room screens virtually nationwide from 12/13 to 12/18. Get tickets here.
Winner of the top prize at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, this mesmerizing debut feature from Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan is an autobiographically tinged portrait of 22-year-old Muzi (Jin Jing), a young woman drifting through her days and nights after returning to her hometown to celebrate the New Year with her parents, and unable to let go of her past. With gorgeously monochrome photography, the director finds seemingly endless new ways to capture the dawns and twilights, the familiar pleasures and urban estrangement of the city of Hangzhou, where the director is from. Alternating between realist conversations between Muzi, family, and lovers; dreamlike interludes; and intermittent documentary sequences with local young people who are floating through their own discombobulating twenties, The Cloud in Her Room is an expressive depiction of the feeling of being transitory in one’s time and place.
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