{{more footnotes needed|date=May 2013}} {{Infobox film | name = 11 Flowers | image = 11 Flowers.jpg | caption = | director = Wang Xiaoshuai | producer = | writer = Wang Xiaoshuai<br />Lao Ni | starring = Liu Wenqing<br> Yan Ni<br> Wang Buqu<br> Mo Shiyi<br> Wang Ziyi<br> Cao Shiping | music = | cinematography = Dong Jinsong | editing = Nelly Quettier | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2011|09|11|Toronto International Film Festival}} | runtime = 110 minutes | country = China | language = Mandarin | budget = }}
'''''11 Flowers''''' ({{zh|c=我11|p=wǒ shí yī}}) is a 2011 film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai centered on a boy named Wang Han who loses his white shirt which shows that he is his school's best gymnast. The loss of the shirt is to take on greater metaphorical meaning as the film progresses which is inspired by the director's own experience as a youth during the Cultural Revolution and Third Front construction<ref>{{Cite web |last=Times-Picayune |first=Mike Scott, NOLA com {{!}} The |date=2013-03-01 |title='11 Flowers': Coming-of-age drama offers rare, credible peek into closed China |url=https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/movies_tv/11-flowers-coming-of-age-drama-offers-rare-credible-peek-into-closed-china/article_52f65c1d-96a5-512a-afd4-f3aa3f2d4251.html |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=NOLA.com |language=en}}</ref> and the more general confusion of childhood.
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==External links== *[https://www.npr.org/2013/02/21/172395278/11-flowers-a-revolutionary-childhood '11 Flowers': A Revolutionary Childhood by Mark Jenkins (NPR)] *{{IMDb title|2042432|11 Flowers}} *{{Rotten tomatoes|11_flowers|11 Flowers}}
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Category:2011 films Category:Films set in the 1970s Category:2010s coming-of-age drama films Category:Films directed by Wang Xiaoshuai Category:Chinese coming-of-age drama films Category:2011 drama films Category:2011 Mandarin-language films {{2010s-drama-film-stub}} {{2010s-China-film-stub}}