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SCMP FilmHong Kong

Why Zhou Xun risked it all for that amazing long take in The First Taste of Loneliness

10.26

In The First Taste of Loneliness, one of the highest-profile Chinese art-house film debuts of 2026, three generations of women – played by Zhou Xun, Xi Meijuan and Wang Shengdi – struggle to put…

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