Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

chi

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Rouge

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

1312349093

Responsibility statement

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

Runtime

Series statement

Criterion collection, 1129

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

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Yan zhi kou

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