Director
Stanley Kwan
Year
2001
Run Time
90
min
Country
Hong Kong/China
Language
Mandarin
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
This film is presented in Mandarin with English subtitles.
Set in 1988 Beijing in the months leading up to the Tiananmen Square disaster, this film tells the story of Chen Handong, a successful middle-aged businessman with deep Communist party connections, who falls passionately in love with Lan Yu, a boy from the countryside. The two men gradually become lovers, but their relationship is shattered by Handong’s infidelity.
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