Farewell My Concubine

霸王别姬

CHEN Kaige

171 minutes | 1993 | Fiction | Mandarin | English Subtitles
4K Restoration

The 46th Cannes Film Festival –– Palme d’Or
The 51st Golden Globe Awards –– Best Foreign Language Film

Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of violence

7 PM, THU, AUG 14
Innis Town Hall

Screening

DUAN Xiaolou (ZHANG Fengyi) knows the stage is only a stage, but CHENG Dieyi (Leslie CHEUNG) lives as if he truly were Yu Ji—his love woven into every breath. From childhood companions to opera partners, their bond is tested when Juxian (GONG Li) enters their lives. On and off the stage, desire and delusion, devotion and betrayal, echo through time. A love too entangled with roles, played again and again in the tides of history.

Director

CHEN Kaige is a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. He made his directorial debut with Yellow Earth (1984) and achieved an international success with Farewell My Concubine (1993), which earned him the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

Credits

  • Director: CHEN Kaige
  • Principal Cast: Leslie CHEUNG Kwok-Wing, GONG Li, ZHANG Fengyi, JIANG Wenli, GE You
  • Producer: TONG Cun-lin, HSU Feng
  • Executive Producer: HSU Bin, Jade HSU Jye
  • Screenplay: Lillian LEE Pik-wah, LU Wei
  • Cinematographer: GU Changwei
  • Production Designer: YANG Zhanjia, YANG Yuhe
  • Costume Designer: CHEN Changmin
  • Editor: PEI Xiaonan
  • Sound: TAO Jing, JINBO Koshiro
  • Music: ZHAO Jiping

Supported by HKETO (Toronto)

Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO Toronto)
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