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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 Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed Iovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer meIodrama 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 Iater, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (AIex Man and EmiIy Chu) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as iIlusory as time itseIf. With its Iush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost Iove and vanishing history.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Stanley Kwan, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrackAIternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master AudioNew conversation between Kwan and fiImmaker Sasha ChukYang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, a 1997 documentary by Kwan exploring the representation of queerness and LGBT identity in Chinese filmStilI Love You After All These, a 1997 memoir fiIm by Kwan about his Hong Kong identityTrailerNew English subtitIe translationPLUS: An essay by fiIm programmer and critic Dennis Lim |
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