Cannes Film Festival 2006 - Nominated - Golden Palm
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Summer Palace
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Film SynopsisLou Ye’s controversial Summer Palace is the story of young lovers whose relationship plays out against the movement for political reform, its violent suppression and the years of disillusionment that follow. After his film world premiered in the Cannes Film Festival’s competition, Lou Ye was banned from filmmaking for five years by Chinese authorities. Get Involved |
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Runtime:
140 min.
Genres:
Drama
Romance
Country:
CHINA
Language:
Mandarin
Color:
Color
Plot Summary
Beautiful country girl Yu Hong (Hao Lei) leaves her village, family and lover to study at Peking University, where she discovers a world of sexual freedom. When she falls in love with fellow student Zhou Wei (Guo Xiaodong), their relationship, driven by passions neither one can understand nor control, becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, students begin to demonstrate, demanding freedom and democracy.
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Directed by
Ye Lou
Produced by
Helge Albers
Sylvain Bursztejn
Li Fang
Ye Lou
An Nai
Writing credits
Ye Lou
Feng Mei
Ma Yingli
Cast
| Xueyun Bai | ||
| Lin Cui | ||
| Long Duan | ||
| Xiaodong Guo | ||
| Lei Hao | ||
| Ling Hu | ||
| Chi Le | ||
| Xianmin Zhang |
It's too bad the first film to directly portray the Tiananmen Square Massacre treats the event as an inconvenience that interrupts the protagonists' ceaseless humping and histrionic breakdowns. Perhaps it was government censors that forced director Lou Ye to portray the soldiers firing into the air, conforming to the communist ... read more
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