Spring Fever

A gorgeous, swooning, overpoweringly erotic depiction of jealousy and obsession, lust and love without limits, from the internationally-feted director of SUZHOU RIVER, PURPLE BUTTERFLY and SUMMER PALACE.

Nanjing, present day, spring time. Wang Ping’s wife suspects him of adultery. She hires Luo Haitao to spy on him and discovers that her husband’s lover is a man, Jiang Cheng. It’s with this man that Luo Haitao and his girl friend, Li Jing, form a torrid love triangle. For all three, it’s the beginning of asphyxiating, sultry nights of physical abandon that exalt the senses. A sulfurous journey into the confines of jealousy and obsessive love.

Ye Lou was born and grew up in Shanghai, a city he would film beautifully in his Suzhou River (2000). After studying cinema at the Beijing Film Academy, the gifted young man debuted in the film career as an assistant director, a producer and a short subjects director. His second feature Zhou Mo Qing Ren (1995) (Weekend Lover) was both a public and critical success, crowned by the Fassbinder Prize. In 1997, he accepted to produce “Super City“, a TV series for which he hired ten of the most promising names of the sixth-generation-directors. Three years later, he came to international prominence with Suzhou River (2000) , an ambitious artistic meditation on love and the status of woman in the rapidly changing Chinese society as well as a moving ode to his home town Shanghai.

– Guy Bellinger