UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34724918
Format:
1 DVD-Video (113 min + Extras)
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1 Booklet (43 Seiten)
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Bildformat: 1.85:1
Edition:
DVD Special Edition, 1. printing
ISBN:
9781681438344
Series Statement:
The Criterion Collection 1077
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. (Criterion Collection)
Note:
Orig.: Taiwan, Japan 1998
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Untertitel: Englisch. Booklet englisch.
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Beautified Realism / Director: Daniel Raim
Language:
Chinese
Keywords:
Film
Author information:
Hou, Hsiao-hsien
