Summer Palace
Filmfest 2006
OT: YIHE YUAN
China, France 2006
(Original: Mandarin)
Director: Lou Ye
Section: International Program
China, 1989. Two young lovers play out their complex, erotic, love/hate relationship against a volatile backdrop of political unrest. Beautiful Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her boyfriend to study in Beijing, where she discovers a world of intense sexual and emotional experimentation, and falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Their relationship becomes one of dangerous games, as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom.
Cast: Hao Lei, Guo Xiaodong, Hu Lingling
Credits
Director: Lou Ye