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The Shadow Play (Lou Ye, 2018)
Lou Ye

The Shadow Play (Lou Ye, 2018)

At this point the best advice I can give you, the prospective viewer of a Lou Ye movie, is this: don’t see it in a theatre, and if you must, sit as far away from the screen as possible. Possibly contemporary cinema’s most extreme abuser of the close-up,
01 Oct 2019 3 min read
Suzhou River (Lou Ye, 2000)
Lou Ye

Suzhou River (Lou Ye, 2000)

2000 was a watershed year in Chinese-language cinema. The year of milestones like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and In the Mood for Love and Yi yi alongside lesser-known but equally important films like Jia Zhangke’s Platform, and Jiang Wen’s Devils on the Doorstep, Johnnie To’s Needing You…
08 May 2019 2 min read
Mystery (Lou Ye, 2012)
Lou Ye

Mystery (Lou Ye, 2012)

The first film Lou Ye was able to make in China following a five-year filmmaking ban he received for submitting his Summer Palace to Cannes without government permission back in 2006 (he made a couple films in the intervening years outside the Mainland). It’s a slick, clever neo-noir melodrama,
02 Feb 2013 2 min read
Lou Ye Capsule Reviews
Lou Ye

Lou Ye Capsule Reviews

Summer Palace — July 28, 2014 A young woman’s erotic journey from Tumen to Chongqing. Following, more or less, 15 years in the life of a group of kids who were at university in Beijing starting in 1988. The rather tangled sexual relationships of college life fall apart in the
01 Feb 2013 1 min read
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