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Wikipedia article




'Love in the 1980s' is a 2015 Chinese period romance film directed by Huo Jianqi and based on a novel by Ye Fu. It was released on September 11, 2015.

Cast



*Yang Caiyu as Cheng Liwen

*Lu Fangsheng as Guan Yubo

*Li Shutong as Xiang Yu'e

Plot



Yubo (Lu Fangsheng) has just graduated from university and been assigned to work in a small village in his home province. Here he meets Liwen (Yang Caiyu), who was his high school classmate (and desk mate), and with whom he was in love. He spends the next six months pursuing her, yet despite the obvious attraction and chemistry between them, she rejects his love (again) out of fear that she will hold him back in his career. The back story of political purges causes her to repress her feelings for him. Years later, Yubo runs into Liwen again at their high school reunion. He gets drunk and she agrees to stay with him overnight to take care of him. After they sleep together, she rejects his proposal of love a third time, telling him that he belongs on the road. Another few years pass, and this time when he goes to visit her he learns that she has just died after a brief unhappy marriage to a truck driver. Yubo ends up adopting and raising her daughter.

Reception



Box office

The film earned at the Chinese box office.

Critical response

Derek Elley of 'Film Business Asia' gave the film a 4 out of 10, saying that "the scenery scores over the human drama".

References




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