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Lan Yu
sunday april 28 8:00 pm Screening $11 - COLONY THEATRE Film plus post-screening Crobar VIP party $25 |
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A gay love story set against the Tiananmen Square massacre, Lan Yu is a groundbreaking film from renowned openly-gay Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan based on an anonymously authored series from the internet. Shot amazingly, in part, surreptitiously in China itself, the film is as politically daring as it is emotionally stirring. Chen Handong is a jaded and corrupt Beijing trading executive with a secret penchant for young men. When a business associate procures a stunningly handsome college student named Lan Yu to be the rent-boy for a night of steamy passion, a surprising love affair has its start. The innocent Lan Yu wants romance and Handong, though smitten, is uninterested in commitment. The simmering chemistry between these two, however, leaves little doubt that they're on their way to some kind of deeper relationship. Things are complicated by Handong's desire for heterosexual respectability, Lan Yu's harrowing brush with real-life government repression in Tiananmen Square, and the tensions between the rising business class and the communist regime that ensnare the men.
The film makes daring leaps through time to track these two lovers over several years, and in so doing, raises this story and the surrounding political unrest to the level of an epic saga. With wonderfully moody cinematography and two leads whose erotic and emotional connection lights up every frame, this is a must-see classic that may never be seen in China itself.
A selection of the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals.
In Mandarin with English subtitles.
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