01 / 09
Farewell My Concubine
霸王別姬
CHEN Kaige
- 171 min
- 1993
- Fiction
- Mandarin
- English Subtitles
4K Restoration
The 46th Cannes Film Festival –– Palme d’Or
The 51st Golden Globe Awards –– Best Foreign Language Film
7:00 PM, THU, AUG 14
Innis Town Hall
4K Restored
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
- DirectorCHEN Kaige
- Principal CastLeslie CHEUNG Kwok-Wing, GONG Li, ZHANG Fengyi, JIANG Wenli, GE You
- ProducerTONG Cun-lin, HSU Feng
- Executive ProducerHSU Bin, Jade HSU Jye
- ScreenplayLillian LEE Pik-wah, LU Wei
- CinematographerGU Changwei
- Production DesignerYANG Zhanjia, YANG Yuhe
- Costume DesignerCHEN Changmin
- EditorPEI Xiaonan
- SoundTAO Jing, JINBO Koshiro
- MusicZHAO Jiping
Supported by HKETO (Toronto)
