SUN FEB 12, 2023 7:00 PM FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | 25th Anniversary Screening Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
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