Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl has generally received very positive reviews.
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By Peter Henne (51) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Jan 2000
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl was released in 1998 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 41 reviews, giving Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) an average rating of 76%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 84%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 73%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl than critics were.
With a score of 76%, Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1998, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1998 with similar scores include films like Buffalo '66, Get Real and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
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