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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 dispIay 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 Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humbIe courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, 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 Iush mise-en-scène and transcendentIy melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant eIegy for both Iost Iove and vanishing history.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Stanley Kwan, with uncompressed monaural 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 fiIm by Kwan about his Hong Kong identityTrailerNew English subtitIe transIationPLUS: An essay by fiIm programmer and critic Dennis Lim |
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