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Rouge: The Criterion Collection

Criterion   (1987) / Region 1
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Rouge: The Criterion Collection

Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man and Emily Chu) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scene and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history.

Details

  • Length
  • Rating NR
  • Released:
  • Added Mar 24 2022
  • Production Year 1987
  • Empire SKU 3293784
  • UPC Code 715515273213
  • Studio  Criterion
  • Packaging Keep
  • Number of Discs 2
  • Disc SS-SL
  • Subtitles English

Features

Interactive Menus
Chapter Selections
Web Site Information
New conversation between Stanley Kwan and filmmaker Sasha Chuk
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, a 1997 documentary by Kwan exploring the representation of queerness and LGBT identity in Chinese film
Still Love You After All These, a 1997 memoir film by Kwan about his Hong Kong identity
An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim

Audio/Video

  • Audio
    Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Video
    Widescreen 1.85:1 Color

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