Fortune Teller - 算命 [2010]

Aka :Suan ming
Release Date: 9 June 2010
Origin : China
Genre: Documentary
Director : Tong Xu

Synopsis
Li Baicheng is a traditional Chinese fortune teller. He lives in a village not far from Beijing with his wife Little Pearl, a deaf and dumb woman who has the mental age of a child. Li takes gentle, patient care of her after rescuing her from her own family's mistreatment. Li himself is a charismatic gnome of a man, stooped and tiny, with an irresistible sparkle in his eyes. His clients seem largely to be sex workers in the town, who come to him for advice on careers, loves and even when and how they should change their names to improve their luck.When police crackdowns threaten the livelihoods of both the prostitutes and the fortune tellers - who, as unlicensed workers, occupy similar positions in the social ecology of small town Chinese traditional culture - Li Baicheng and Little Pearl are forced to move to his hometown.

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