FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
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- RELEASED IN: 1998
- 113 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: HOU HSIAO-HSIEN
ABOUT THE FILM:
In Shanghainese and Cantonese with English subtitles.
An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gorgeous period reverie traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around a late 19th century Shanghai brothel, where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor yet 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 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.
FORMAT: DCP
DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films
COUNTRY: Taiwan
