Manbo Nülang (Mambo Girl) 1957 All Ages
When
10.00 am, Sun 5 Feb 2017 (92 mins)Where
Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art
About
This screening will take place at SunPAC. SunPAC is located next door to the Sunnybank Community & Sports Club, 470 McCullough Street, Sunnybank 4109.
High-energy dance numbers punctuate this teen musical melodrama. Kailing (Grace Chang) is popular with her classmates, has the attention of school hunk Danian (Peter Chen Ho) and is adored by her parents and little sister (Kitty Ting Hao). When she finds out that she was adopted, she is devastated and leaves to find her natural mother, who she traces to a dance hall. Kailing's mother works a lowly job at the hall and is ashamed when her daughter sees her so she denies any knowledge of her. Meanwhile, Kailing's worried adoptive family ask only that she return home and resume her position as the sun around which they orbit. From the first shot of harlequin pants and flat dance shoes on a chequerboard floor, Grace Chang is utterly addictive as she mambos and flashes her eyes through 'I love Cha Cha' and other catchy Mandarin pop songs written by popular composer Yao Min.
Production Credits
- Director /Script: yi Wen (Evan Yang)
- Cinematographer: Dong Shaoyong
- Editor: Wang Zhaoxi
- Music: Kei Shang-Tong
- Cast: wu Jiaxiang
- Production Company: mp & gi Film Studio
- Print Source / Rights: Cathay-Keris Films
- Screening Format: Digital Cinema, 35mm
- Year: 1957
- Runtime: 92 minutes
- Country: Hong Kong
- Language: Mandarin
- Sound: Mono
- Colour: Black & White