Poet on a Business Trip
2015, Chinese. Directed by Anqi Ju.
In 2002, Ju Anqi made a film about a tour by the poet Shu through Xinjiang, the most western-lying, autonomous Uyghur province of China. All that we know about Shu is that he plays a poet who sends himself on a business trip - an absurd, satirical starting point that sets the tone for the film. For a variety of reasons, it was not until 2013 that Ju started editing the rough, lyrical material that he had shot in what is now a very restless Xinjiang: it's like an excellent wine that has had time to mature. Structured around 16 poems which he wrote on the road, Shu’s physically exhausting journey takes him along endless rocky roads, passing shabby inns and through impressive landscapes from one prostitute to the next. In its documentary authenticity, Poet on a Business Trip is also an historic document that exudes an atmosphere of loss, providing an unsentimental yet melancholy glimpse of a country in transition and a mirror for the existential irreversibility of time. (c) iffr.com
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- 1h 43m
- Post-credits
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- Chinese
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- Released
- 23 January 2015
- Original title
- 诗人出差了
- Country
- China
- Written by
- 雎安奇
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Poet on a Business Trip isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 January 2015. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Poet on a Business Trip?
Poet on a Business Trip (2015) was directed by Anqi Ju and stars Shu (竖).