880-01 Yan zhi kou = Rouge / Jia he yu le shi ye you xian gong si, Wei he dian ying zhi zuo you xian gong si she zhi ; bian ju Li Bihua, Qiu Dai Anping ; dao yan Guan Jinpeng.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Based on the novel by Pik-Wah Lee. Special features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Stanley Kwan; Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack; New conversation between Kwan and filmmaker Sasha Chuk; Yang [plus or minus] Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, a 1997 documentary by Kwan exploring the representation of queerness and LGBT identity in Chinese film; Still Love You After All These, a 1997 memoir film by Kwan about his Hong Kong identity; Trailer; New English subtitle translation; an essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim. 880-03 Mei Yanfang, Zhang Guorong, Wan Ziliang, Zhu Baoyi.
Summary:
"Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man Chi-leung and Emily Chu Bo-yee) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendentally melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history"--Container.
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