Spectrum
Los Angeles Premiere 2014
Director: Ann Hui
Producer: Qin Hong
Screenwriter: Li Qiang
Cinematographer: Wang Yu
Production Designer: Zhao Hai
Editor: Manda Wai
Sound: Tu Duu-chih
Composer: Eli Marshall
Cast: Tang Wei, Feng Shaofeng, Zhu Yawen, Wang Zhiwen, Hao Lei, Wang Qianyuan, Huang Xuan
DCP, color, in Mandarin w/ English s/t, 178 min.
Hong Kong director Ann Hui melds intimacy and epic history in her latest masterwork, a portrait of the iconoclastic May 4th woman writer Xiao Hong. Like the republican China that she lived in, Xiao Hong’s life was short and turbulent (1911-1942). The movie’s title hints at the irony of those times – when idealism and new literature collided with nascent revolution and a bloody world war. A biopic that subtly acknowledges the unknowability of its subject, this layered and visually gorgeous film was the closing night pick of the 2014 Venice film festival. – Cheng-Sim Lim
Introduced by Howard Goldblatt (Professor emeritus, University of Notre Dame; literary translator and Xiao Hong biographer)
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