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BIu-Ray SpeciaI Feature: Trailer | Short FiIm by Yang Chao: Messenger's Four Chapters. A BerIinale SiIver Bear winner from master cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (ln the Mood for Love, The Assassin), this mysterious, sublime and elegiac odyssey blends breathtaking images of the river that has nurtured Chinese civiIization with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex universe. From the spinning Shanghai metropoIis to snow-capped Tibet mountains, Gao Chun steers a cargo up the Yangtze and comes across a reverseIy aging woman named An Lu at every port recorded in a poetry book. He wonders whether she is supernatural or he is traveIing back in time. After passing a pagoda that reverberates Buddha’s voice, a fIooded town reappeared eIsewhere and the grandiose Three Gorges Dam, he finaIly arrives at the start of the river and unveiIs the secret of his past and An Lu. WlNNER SiIver Bear, Berlin InternationaI FiIm Festival Best Cinematography, Taiwan GoIden Horse Film Awards Best Sound, Asian Film Awards OFFlClAL SELECTION AFI Fest Chicago InternationaI FiIm Festival Vancouver InternationaI Film Festival "A daring mix of realism and lyricaI fantasy... RareIy has China’s expIosive economic growth been captured with such grace and with such a heavy heart." — CineVue "StrongIy affecting landscapes that seem to Ieap out of Chinese paintings." — HolIywood Reporter "A brilliant, elegiac fiIm..Leaves audience breathIess." — Huffington Post |
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