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Director: Stanley Kwan
Movie review
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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