Summer Palace
Lou Ye / CN, DE, FR, 2006 / 139 min.
A courageous, candid film: Lou Ye (Suzhou River) portrays an obsessive romantic relationship between two students at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, and the subsequent crushing of hope. An atmospheric sketch of modern China and melancholy romantic drama in one.
Attractive dreamer Yu Hong, from a small town in the provinces, is allowed at the age of seventeen to go to university in Beijing, where she finds herself in the midst of the student movement. She falls head over heels for student activist Zhou Wei; their relationship is thrives on sex and political activism.
Screens on 35mm from the Eye collection to accompany the re-release of Lou Ye’s film Suzhou River.
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Details
Director
Lou Ye
Production year
2006
Country
CN, DE, FR
Original title
Yi he yuan
Length
139 min.
Language
Mandarin Chinese, German
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Eye Classics
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