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...Cannes 2006 has shown some movies that oppose the prevailing trend and try to encompass a lot, everything, too much. One film was Summer Palace, from the Chinese director Lou Ye, whose Suzhou River was an international hit six years ago. In Summer Palace he wants to summarize the yearning for emancipation among China's youth in the '80s and '90s. The centerpiece is the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989, the portrayal of which should keep the film suppressed in its home country for quite some time...
Yuan had led a similar program before college, establishing a sister-school relationship with a school in Suzhou, China...
...interesting pieces aren't just relegated to the confines of the museum; several worthwhile satellite shows are attracting attention on their own. Many of the funkiest exhibits are concentrated in the northeastern warehouse district, a ramshackle neighborhood of old godowns along Suzhou Creek, where artists have established a thriving colony. (Many of these warehouses will be demolished in coming months to make way for more space-efficient high-rises). Stop by the DDM Warehouse at 713 Dongda Ming Road, where the eclectic exhibits include real, albeit dead, cows and sheep inflated like giant beach balls and neatly planted rows...
...other end of the spectrum was the brooding, unsettling realism of Lou Ye’s Suzhou River, a tale of doubled romances which eventually intersect and is startlingly reminiscent of the French New Wave in its visceral vision and edgy production. The work nonetheless captures the raw beauty of Shanghai: its sordid, lurid nightlife, its dissolute youth, its sprawling chaos...
...true scent of romantic obsession, one would have to go east: to the Chinese Peony Pavilion, Hong Kong director Yonfan's love story of two women (played by Japan's Rie Miyazawa and Taiwan's Joey Wong) in a Suzhou noble house. The film is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The women don't make their sexual affinity explicit; but one can always feel the breath of the other's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Seeing Peony Pavilion is like getting high on the opium smoke a beautiful...