Completed - MANDARIN - Drama - 79 minutes
LOU Ye's masterpiece restored in 4K: "A compelling story of love and obsession" -David Rooney, Variety
Year of production : 2000 Director(s) : Ye LOU Cast : Xun ZHOU, Hongsheng JIA Producer(s) : An NAI (DREAM FACTORY), Philippe BOBER (ESSENTIAL FILMPRODUKTION)
A motorcycle courier in his mid-twenties is asked to drive the 16- year-old daughter of a smuggler. They fall in love, but when she figures out that he is kidnapping her for a ransom, she jumps into the river, and he is jailed for murder. After his release he meets a dancer: her alter ego.The 4K digital restoration of the original version of SUZHOU RIVER was realized in 2021 starting from the original 16mm a-b negative of the image from the laboratory Kopierwerk Babelsberg and supervised by Lou Ye himself.
Country(ies) : CHINA, GERMANY
This list is based on the distributors’ declarations. In the case where you don't agree about one of them, please inform us of the change(s) you request by clicking here.
Berlinale - EFM 2022 (Berlinale Classics)Hong-Kong Filmart 2022Il Cinema ritrovato di Bologna 2022