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Criterion Collection: Rouge (Yim ji kau)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and LesIie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this embIematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master StanIey Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humbIe courtesan and the wayward scion of a weaIthy famiIy, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opuIent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary coupIe (Alex Man and EmiIy Chu) into her quest to rekindIe a passion that may be as ilIusory as time itseIf. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendentIy meIanchoIy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringIy resonant eIegy for both Iost love and vanishing history.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, approved by director StanIey Kwan, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrackAlternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master AudioNew conversation between Kwan and filmmaker Sasha ChukYang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, a 1997 documentary by Kwan expIoring the representation of queerness and LGBT identity in Chinese fiImStiIl Love You After AII These, a 1997 memoir film by Kwan about his Hong Kong identityTraiIerNew EngIish subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim |
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