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Chen Kaige ｜1993｜Colour｜171min｜Chinese with English Subtitle
Chen Kaige|1993|New 171 minutes Uncut|Chinese original sound with English subtitles
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Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grew up in a Peking Opera school where they often used corporal punishment to instill discipline so that students could master the complex body movements and singing skills required for this ancient art. As the two gradually grew up, they formed complementary talents: Die Yi, who had clear eyebrows and a slender temperament, mainly played the role of Dan, while Xiaolou played the role of a masculine general.
For Die Yi, his identity on the stage gradually became a reality, and he fell in love with Xiaolou; However, Xiaolou did not fully respond to this feeling, but married the famous prostitute Ju Xian (played by Gong Li), thus forming an emotional triangle full of danger and jealousy. And this complex relationship, under the torrent of the times in modern China, will inevitably gradually tear the three of them apart and drag them to the abyss…
“Farewell My Concubine” is adapted from Li Bihua’s novel of the same name, directed by Chen Kaige, and starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, and Zhang Fengyi. The film won the Palme d’Or at the 46th Cannes Film Festival in France, becoming the first and only Chinese film to win this award so far. It is also regarded as one of the greatest Chinese films of all time. In addition, the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the 66th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was named one of the “Top 100 Immortal Films” by Time magazine in 2005. In 2006, Premiere magazine ranked Gong Li’s “Juxian” as the 89th place in the “100 Greatest Performances of All Time”.
The source of the film is 2023 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the film’s release, and the restored 4K uncut version is about 20 minutes longer than the previous theatrical version.