Vivian Qu Talks Feminist Thriller ‘Girls On Wire’ & Frenzied Berlin Red Carpet As Fans Go Wild For Wen Qi & Liu Haocun: “The Screaming Was Louder Than For Timothée”
deadline.comChinese director Vivian Qu is in Berlin Film Festival’s competition this year with feminist, film studios-set thriller Girls on Wire, charting the fortunes of two cousins born into China’s economic miracle of the 1990s.
Qu previously enjoyed success in Berlin as the producer of 2014 Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice by Diao Yinan, while her second feature as a director Angels Wear White (2017) won more than 40 awards on the festival circuit having premiered in Venice.
Girls on Wire reunites Qu with actress Wen Qi (aka Vicky Chen), who got her big break in Angels Wear White and has since become a big star in China.
She co-stars opposite equally buzzy actress Liu Haocun (One Second, Only Falls Rush In). Wen Qi plays Fang Di, the older cousin who takes on physically gruelling work as a stuntwoman double in China’s largest film studios to clear family debts, while Liu Haocun, co-stars as vulnerable younger cousin Tian Tian, who falls prey to her drug-addicted father and the mob.
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