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Two Criterion 1960′s movies by French directors:
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Weekend
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Saturday Fiction (兰心大剧院). dir Lou Ye (娄烨). 2019.
Lou Ye is a Chinese screenwriter-director based in Shanghai, China. Educated at the Beijing Film Academy, Lou has received international acclaim. for works such as Suzhou River (2003) and Summer Palace (2006). Touching on topics of Chinese identity and the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Lou’s work has been deemed controversy, with his first film Weekend Lover banned in its first two years of conception and the release of his film Summer Palace resulting in a five-year ban. Lou’s work is associated with the Sixth Generation film movement in China, known for its use of amateur filmmaking aesthetics and a more “individualistic, anti-romantic life view” with “attention to contemporary urban life, especially as affected by disorientation [and] rebellion”.
Saturday Fiction is a period drama set on Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1941. The movie centers around a famous film actress and spy Jean Yu on the search for her ex-husband (who is held by Japanese authorities) - as she features in the play “Saturday Fiction”.
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