DVD
Rouge = Yinji kau
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In Cantonese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Anita Mui Yim-fong, Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, Alex Man Chi-leung, Emily Chu Bo-yee.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
"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 into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history."--Container.
Notes
Adapted from the book by Lilian Lee.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Stanley Kwan ; alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack ; new conversation between 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 ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.