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Bookmark this pageRed Rose, White Rose (1994)
Director: Stanley Kwan
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From Time Out Film Guide
Stanley Kwan, director of the sublime Rouge and Actress, has adapted the most famous Chinese account of the war between men and women, a novella by the late Eileen Chang, preserving every ounce of the book's irony and sarcasm. In pre-communist Shanghai a western-educated man (Chao) runs away from his torrid mistress (Chen, never better) and marries a traditionally submissive girl (Yip)...and proceeds to turn her into a neurotic wreck. Easy to imagine Fassbinder liking this story, and he'd have loved the way Chris Doyle's hallucinatory cinematography accentuates the plot's twists of the knife.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Stanley Kwan
Producer: Wong Hoi
Cast: Winston Chao, Joan Chen, Veronika Yip full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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