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6:00 pm
Farewell My Concubine
Chen Kaige, 1993, China/Hong Kong, 35mm, 157min.
The internationally-acclaimed historical epic from Chen Kaige
that traces the tumultuous history of twentieth century China
through the lives of two opera stars and their intertwining passions.
Visually sumptuous, emblazoned with star power, and consistently
engaging as story-telling, Farewell My Concubine is a bleak testimony to rigidity of sex roles and the inevitable
dominance of political history over the personal. Based on Lillian
Lee's acclaimed novel of the same name.
Winner: Best Film, Cannes Film Festival 1993
9:00 pm
He's a Woman, She's a Man
Director: Peter Chan, Hong Kong, 1994, 35mm, 107 min.
A winning, warm, and generous screwball comedy of cross-dressing
and gender confusion. Anita Yuen plays an obsessed pop fan who
poses as a boy in order to insinuate herself into the life of
her favorite female singer and her producer/husband (played by
Carina Lau & Leslie Cheung). A sweet comedy from the director
of Comrades, Almost A Love Story (Tian Mi Mi).
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