Word: fengyi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STARRING: Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian DIRECTOR: Chen Kaige OPENS: Dec. 17 in N.Y.C.and L.A.; wide...
Starring Leslie Cheung and Zhang Fengyi; Miramax...
...opera stars, "Farewell My Concubine" benefits from Taiwanese director Chen Kaige's masterful use of lighting, sound, and setting. This skill is apparent from the movie's beginning--reuniting in 1977, post-Cultural Revolution China, the movie's two main characters, Cheng Dieyi(Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) walk tentatively side by side into the bright light of a bare gymnasium, to be greeted by a single admirer rather than the thousands they once entertained. This make-shift stage, with its single spotlight, bears an eerie resemblance to the interrogation rooms of the Communists, giving the reunion...
...their lives, with Xiaolou playing the strong, proud King of Chu while Dieyi takes the role of his faithful concubine Yu. Xiaolou's character is one whose blustering demonstrations of strength are not enough to keep him from bending under the strain of the harshpolitical times, and actor Zhang Fengyi does anadmirable job of portraying a character whoeventually finds it necessary to turn againstthose he loves...
...fall for. But then Cheung, a Hong Kong actor living in Vancouver, might not have been available for the role of his career. As Cheng Dieyi, a homosexual star of the Peking Opera who is riven by jealousy when his "stage brother" Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) marries a call girl (Gong Li), Cheung is both steely and vulnerable, with a sexuality that transcends gender -- a Mandarin Michael Jackson...