Trapped in a well-behaved middle-class life, Shu Qiao, a 30-year-old college lecturer, accidentally embarks on a journey to find love and freedom. The film takes marriage and love as the frame and focuses on a middle-class woman who seeks hope, change, and self-salvation between two men with completely different lifestyles in the two social contexts of China and Europe. (Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation = kisskh) ~~ Co-production with the Czech Republic. ~~ Release dates: Oct 14, 2022 (Festival) || Dec 10, 2024 (Cinema) Edit Translation
- English
- magyar / magyar nyelv
- עברית / עִבְרִית
- dansk
- Native Title: 盛极一时的爱情
- Also Known As: We Can't Grow Old Together , Wo Men Bu Neng Bai Tou Xie Lao , Sheng Ji Yi Shi De Ai Qing , 我们不能白头偕老
- Genres: Romance, Life, Drama
Cast & Credits
- Liang Cui ShanShu QiaoMain Role
- Zhang Ning HaoQu Qiu FanMain Role
- Ren BinHu ZhunSupport Role
Reviews

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Freedom is uncertainty
I think this is a good movie about the problems Chinese women face in traditional Chinese society. The main idea of the movie is to contrast, in an explicit way, the strict and rigid path of Chinese society against a free and uncertain life where one can be happy but where nothing is secure.The main point is that even if we choose this free life (the lover in Europe) and it ends up surprising us by turning into a bad experience, we should not go back to a place where we don’t fit or that we don’t enjoy (the husband). Freedom means uncertainty, and that means we can either face a good or a bad result, but that is the beauty of freedom: we are not chained to anything, in this case, a traditionally structured society. The end of the movie is evidently not the result she was expecting, but it’s ultimately a liberating outcome for her.
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