Born: 1955
Li's pictures are shot by her cinematographer husband, Zheng Nianping.
On Blush, she collaborated with the BFA teacher and film critic Ni Zhen, who also worked on the script for Raise the Red Lantern.
Jonathan Rosenbaum: "Blush was adapted by director Li Shaohong from a novel by Su Tong, a popular short-story writer whose better-known works include “Wives and Concubines,” the basis for Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern... The only female member of China’s celebrated Fifth Generation of filmmakers [sic?], Li was born in 1955, but has made only four features to date. I haven’t seen the first, The Case of the Silver Snake (1988), a thriller commissioned by the Beijing Film Studio. But my interest was piqued by the second — a loose adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold known here as Bloody Dawn or Bloody Morning (1990); it was banned by the Chinese government but shown abroad. The third, a nuanced contemporary comedy-drama called Family Portrait, was even better."
