China Onscreen Biennial: Double Exposure (二次曝光) North American Premiere

Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film. October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC

DOUBLE EXPOSURE

Director: Li Yu. Producer: Fang Li. Screenwriter: Li Yu, Fang Li. Cinematographer: Florian J.E. Zinke. Production Designer: Liu Weixin. Editor: Li Yu, Yuan Ze. Sound: Du Duu-chih. Composer: Howie 8. Cast: Fan Bingbing, Feng Shaofeng, Huo Siyan, Joan Chen, Yao Anlian.

Since debuting with her first feature FISH AND ELEPHANT in 2001, director Li Yu has gone from rough-and-ready documentary realism with non-professional actors to working with some of the biggest Chinese stars. This stylish and briskly paced psychological thriller, her fifth and visually most ambitious feature yet, plumbs thriller staples of dualities and doubling in dizzying permutations – past indistinguishable from present, reality entangled with illusion, guilt and terror shadowing feelings of love – to a clincher of an ending. Joan Chen in a supporting role impresses, as does Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing, playing a young urbanite whose façade of certainties and comforts – boyfriend, apartment and car – violently splinters in a moment of jealousy. – Cheng-Sim Lim

35mm, color, Putonghua with English subtitles, 105 min.