![]() ![]() ![]() It gives one a sweeping history lesson covering the time frame from 1925 to 1977, with the bold storytelling relating generalized events of the country’s troubled history to the troubled relationship of two Peking (Beijing) Opera actors and their intense love story triangle. ![]() It’s adapted by Lilian Lee and Lu Wei from Miss Lee’s best-selling novel. ![]() His “Farewell” film is an overlong, violent, rhapsodic, ambitious and controversial (at least to the Communist authorities) big-scale epic shot in an operatic style that is sumptuous, magnificently costumed, seductive, given to broad overviews of the social and political situations, melodramatic, well-acted but limited because its drama is emotionally uninvolving. “Well-acted but limited because its drama is emotionally uninvolving.”Ĭhinese filmmaker Chen Kaige (“Life on a String”) is associated with the Fifth Generation movement (beginning in the mid-late 1980s, they were the first generation of filmmakers to produce Chinese films since the Cultural Revolution they jettisoned traditional methods of storytelling and opted for a more free and unorthodox approach). FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (Ba wang bie ji)(director: Chen Kaige screenwriters: Lilian Lee/Lu Wei/based on the novel by Miss Lee cinematographer: Gu Changwei editor: Pei Xiaonan music: Zhao Jiping cast: Gong Li (Juxian), Leslie Cheung (Cheng Dieyi), Zhang Fengyi (Xiaolou), Lu Qi (Master Guan), Wenli Jiang (Douzi’s Mother), You Ge (Master Yuan), Yang Fei (Shitou as a Child), Mingwei Ma (Douzi as a Child), Zhi Yin (Douzi as a Teenager), Hailong Zhao (Shitou as a Teenager), Wenli Jiang (Douzi’s Mother) Runtime: 154 MPAA Rating: R producer: Feng Hsu Miramax Films 1993-China-in Mandarin with English subtitles) ![]()
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