Huo Jianqi Film Narrative Style

Huo Jianqi is a film director with special significance in the development of Chinese film. He graduated in the same period with the fifth-generation directors when everything in Chinese film industry needed to be done, but his name, for many decades, appeared as a film artist in the most inconspicuous location of the movie subtitles behind the fifth-generation directors. In 1995, he began to direct his first independent film as a director "The Winner". Although he was in the sudden emergence of the sixth generation film directors, Huo Jianqi always sticks with his unique film aesthetic concept. From the debut "The Winner" to "Nuan", each of Huo Jianqi's film was born with a very low-key, unobtrusive gesture, but won great applause and praise from major film awards at home and abroad, and then returned to the Chinese film market with the aura and expectations to accept the test and evaluation of the domestic mainstream culture. Different from many sixth generation directors'exotic award-winning way, compared with their pioneering and marginality, Huo Jianqi has always concerned on the expression of Chinese traditional core values. In his films, there are rarely involved in the critical reflection and the merciless disclosure of the cruelness of the real world, and His films are built in the warmth of return. The unique style of film narrative and humanism temperament is the flag of Huo's film.In this article, the author intends to systematically and comprehensively study the narrative style of Huo Jianqi's film through the analysis of Huo Jianqi's films, and strive to structure his create style and features so that to find out his create rules in the film narrative and expressive level. The author intends to bring some inspiration and ideas to the Chinese new generation film, and Chinese poetic movies.