Director Wang Xiaoshuai attends the red carpet for the movie "Chuangru zhe" (Red amnesia) at the 71st Venice Film Festival September 4, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

Chuangru zhe, she noted, portrays the universal sense of loneliness and generation gap of the world's elderly, but also the individual hardship of a woman who lived through a special period of China's history.

The film's premiere was warmly welcomed in Venice by a large audience of international cinema professionals who said they appreciated a variety of elements, from the technique and recitation to the story.

"Deep reflection about China's recent history is a new and very interesting angle of this film," a cinema expert at an Italian publishing group, Federica Guarnieri, told Xinhua after watching Chuangru zhe.

Another viewer who defined herself as a "China and cinema enthusiast," Valentina Sangiorgi, said she has started studying Chinese in recent times.

"Cinema is important to learn new words and aspects of contemporary China that I had only approached in books so far," she added.

An Italian movie director, Giorgio Grasso, said he particularly liked the technique and recitation of Chuangru zhe. "I loved some details in the photograph as well as the main actress' recitation.

She was sublime," he told Xinhua.

As a highly experienced stage actress from Beijing People's Art Theatre, Lu is 73 years old and she has played in several films.

In Grasso's view, Chuangru zhe marks the increasing quality rise of Chinese cinema that year after year is better known and appreciated at the international level.

A total of seven Chinese-language works were presented in the 71st Venice film festival, which also hosted for the first time a China Film Forum entirely dedicated to the Asian country.

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