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30/11(Fri)9:50pm/BCBuy

In Mandarin with English subtitles
China, Hong Kong and France
2009 / Colour / 115min
Director: Lou Ye
Cast: Hao Qin, Zhuo Tan, Chen Si Cheng
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It’s Spring time and Jiang Cheng is going through a special journey with his friends Luo Haitao and Li Jing on the picturesque Nanjing coast. The three are entangled in complicated romantic relationships, both homosexual and heterosexual, in an unforeseen love triangle. The film reveals the complexity and deep jealousy of obsessive love from the three protagonists’ disparate perspectives. This is director Lou Ye’s opus, a film with a strong sense of the humanity and sentimentality of a marginalised sub-culture and life in China, as generally represented by the “6th generation of China’s Directors”. Lou Ye’s coaxes probably the most passionate homosexual performance in the history of China’s cinema from his actors.

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In Mandarin with English Subtitles
Taiwan / 2009 / Colour / 94min
Director: Chi Y Lee
Cast: Amiya Lee, Chien-hui Liao, Angel Yao
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Beautiful Crazy charts the rocky relationships between four young Taiwanese, following the trials and tribulations of young love, gay and straight. Flitting through time and memory, director Chi Y Lee centers the story on the relationship between Angel and Xiao-Bu, introduced as schoolgirl best friends. As we leap to the present, Angel, her boyfriend, and female friend Ah-mi are involved in complex three-way affair. Meanwhile Xiao-Bu has fallen upon hard times, living with her comatose alcoholic father. The lives three of the girls are inextricably interlinked, as we find out as the action unfolds. Beautiful Crazy is captivating cinema beautifully filmed by Dutch/Indonesian documentary filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich.