Rouge
DVD - 2022
"Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man Chi-leung and Emily Chu Bo-yee) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendentally melancholy mood, this sen...suous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history"--Container.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Ghost films
Detective and mystery films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Motion pictures, Chinese
Drama
Fiction films
Films de fiction - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection
[2022]
- Language
- Chinese
English - Corporate Authors
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- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- Widescreen.
Title and credits from screen.
Based on the novel by Lilian Lee.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Stanley Kwan; Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack; New conversation between Kwan and filmmaker Sasha Chuk; Yang [plus or minus] Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, a 1997 documentary by Kwan exploring the representation of queerness and LGBT identity in Chinese film; Still Love You After All These, a 1997 memoir film by Kwan about his Hong Kong identity; Trailer; New English subtitle translation. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; NTSC, region 1; 16:9 widescreen presentation; Dolby monaural or 5.1 surround.
- Awards
- Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress (Anita Mui), Best Director (Stanley Kwan), 1989
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Huang Zhongbiao (Bill Wong Chung-piu) ; music, Li Xiaotian (Michael Lai Siu-tin) ; editor, Zhang Yaozong (Peter Cheung Yiu-chung).
- ISBN
- 9781681439488
- Disc 1. [Feature film]
- Disc 2. [Special features].
