Screening of “In the Mood for Love” and “Farewell my Concubine”
Screening of “In the mood for love”: Fri 09 May 2014, 7.30 pm
Screening of “Farewell my concubine”: Sat 10 May 2014, 2 pm
TPD
From TPD:
In the 3rd week of Cannes month, you are invited to the screening of 2 Chinese films: “In the mood for love” directed by Wong Kar-wai and “Farewell my concubine” directed by Chen Kaige at TPD.
Original language with Vietnamese subtitles. The screening is for educational purpose and supportive to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.
About films
In the mood for love (2000)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung. The film premiered on 20 May 2000, at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d’Or.
The film’s original Chinese title, meaning “the age of blossoms” or “the flowery years” – Chinese metaphor for the fleeting time of youth, beauty and love – derives from a song of the same name by Zhou Xuan from a 1946 film. The English title derives from the song, “I’m in the Mood for Love”.
Wong had planned to name the film Secrets, until listening to the song late in post-production. The film forms the second part of an informal trilogy, together with the first part Days of Being Wild (released in 1991) and the last part 2046 (released in 2004).
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Farewell My Concubine (1993)
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (simplified Chinese: 霸王别姬; traditional Chinese: 霸王別姬; pinyin: Bàwáng Bié Jī; literally: “The Hegemon-King Bids Farewell to His Concubine”), a 1993 Chinese drama film directed by Chen Kaige, is one of the central works of the Fifth Generation movement that brought Chinese film directors to world attention.
Similar to other Fifth Generation films like To Live and The Blue Kite, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE explores the effect of China’s political turmoil during the mid-20th century on the lives of individuals, families, and groups, in this case, two stars in a Peking opera troupe and the woman who comes between them.
The film is an adaptation of the novel by Lilian Lee. Lilian Lee is also one of the film’s screenplay writers. The actor Leslie Cheung was used in the film to attract audiences because melodramas are not a popular genre. Also, due to Gong Li’s international stardom, she was used as the other main character in the film.
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE remains to date the only Chinese-language film to win the Cannes Palme d’Or.
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