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X-WR-CALNAME:Film Screening: Farewell My Concubine (1993\, dir. Chen Kaige)
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DESCRIPTION:One of the landmark films of China’s Fifth Generation\, Chen 
 Kaige’s 1993 historical epic encompasses 50 turbulent years of Chinese h
 istory in a riveting backstage drama about the stars of the Peking Opera.\
 n\nDouzi (Leslie Cheung) and Shitou (Zhang Fengyi) were orphan boys when t
 hey were inducted into the Peking Opera’s intensely disciplined training
  program. The delicate Douzi is assigned the role of a female concubine in
  a famous traditional opera\, while Shitou is cast as the king. Each will 
 spend their lives locked in these roles\, bringing them tremendous fame an
 d securing careers that will endure the Second World War and the Communist
  takeover\, before encountering friction during the upheavals of the Cultu
 ral Revolution. Their friendship\, too\, is challenged by circumstance\, w
 ith Douzi longing for Shitou\, while Shitou eventually weds the beautiful 
 sex worker Juxian (Gong Li). As the vagaries of history alter every aspect
  of their lives\, the bonds between these three remain fierce\, while the 
 roles they embody keep alive something timeless.\n\nWei Lu’s adaptation 
 of Lilian Lee’s novel is a paragon of narrative compression\, sweeping a
 cross years while infusing moments with rich detail and arresting intimacy
 . Meanwhile\, Chen’s sumptuous rendering would secure his stature as an 
 internationally celebrated auteur. Farewell My Concubine earned two Oscar 
 nominations and became the first Chinese-language film to win the Palme d
 ’Or at Cannes. In its home country\, the film was released\, then banned
 \, then released and banned again. But whatever controversies Farewell My 
 Concubine generated would eventually be overshadowed by its legacy as a ma
 sterpiece.
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LOCATION:Van Meter Hall\, G07
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Farewell My Concubine (1993\, dir. Chen Kaige)
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 oncubine-1993-dir-chen-kaige
CATEGORIES:Film/Media
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