Family Portrait

After laying bare backward village mentalities in Bloody Morning Li Shaohong turns her attention to Chinas urban middle class Cao is a photographer married to an opera singer and with an infant son caught in the usual professional morass of political compromise His life starts to fall apart when he learns that his exwife also bore him a son some months after their divorce and when the boy turns up looking for his father Nothing wildly dramatic just believable people in believable situations If the ending seems a touch forced this is nevertheless a sign that Fifth Generation cinema is changing and coming to terms with uptodate realities