Format:
1 Blu-ray-Disc (113 Min.)
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farbig
Series Statement:
The Criterion Collection 1077
Uniform Title:
Hai shang hua
Content:
An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work to buy back their freedom. Among the regular clients is the taciturn Master Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), whose relationship with his longtime mistress (Michiko Hada) is roiled by a perceived act of betrayal. Composed in a languorous procession of entrancing long takes, "Flowers of Shanghai" evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty, an insular universe where much of the dramatic action remains tantalizingly offscreen - even as its emotional fallout registers with quiet devastation. [Cover]
Note:
enthält außerdem:
,
Introduction to "Flowers of Shanghai" (2021)
,
Beautified Realism - The Making of Flowers of Shanghai (2021)
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mehrsprachige Originalfassung / UT: engl.
Language:
Chinese
Keywords:
Blu-Ray-Disc
