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Sundance Doc ‘The Dating Game’ Tackles China’s Gender Divide and Romance in the Digital Age: ‘This Generation of Young Men Are Being Punished Again and Again’
A dating coach helps Chinese working-class men find love in a Sundance doc exploring gender imbalance, digital romance and social transformation.
In China’s rapidly modernizing metropolis of Chongqing, where traditional matchmaking parks coexist with towering skyscrapers, dating coach Hao is on a mission to help the country’s surplus of single men find love. Hao, who rose from working-class origins to become one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches, brings credibility through his own success story – having won the heart of his wife Wen, a sophisticated urbanite who now runs her own matchmaking business. The film, produced by Academy Award winner Joanna Natasegara (“The White Helmets”), emerged from Du Feng’s previous work on “Hidden Letters,” which explored women’s resistance to patriarchal society through a secret written language.
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