Cry Me a River (2008)

Name: Cry Me a River
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2008-07-11

19m

Running Time

Plot.

An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existence does their culture require?

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Cast & Crew.

Zhao Tao

Wang Hongwei

Aaron C. Shang

Actor

Hao Lei

Guo Xiaodong

Jia Zhangke

Director / Writer

Jordi Balló

Producer

Wang Yu

Director of Photography

Lo Ta-Yu

Composer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
July 11, 2008

Original Name
河上的爱情

Status
Released

Running Time
19m

Genres
Romance Drama

Last updated: 2025-05-20

Wiki.

Cry Me a River (河上的爱情 Heshang de aiqing, literally "love on the river") is a 2008 short film directed by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film is a romance recounting the reunion of four college friends and lovers after ten years. The leads are played by Jia regulars Zhao Tao and Wang Hongwei, and Hao Lei and Guo Xiaodong, who starred together in Lou Ye's 2006 film Summer Palace. Jia has stated that he was inspired by the classic Chinese film Spring in a Small Town, also about the reuniting of former lovers in a rural river town in eastern China.

The film was produced by Jia's own Xstream Pictures.