By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. (2007). |, February 7, 2001 Er...that's a compliment. When a mysterious death occurs, the lives of five unexpected strangers are suddenly intertwined together. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty, but also a meeting place for memories and secrets. Xun Zhou is extraordinary in a star-making role on a par with Zhang Yiyi's in Crouching Tiger... Ye Lou is clearly the one to watch from the 6th Generation, a true romantic with more in common with Wong Kar-Wai than Chen Kaige. Happily, Suzhou River has been picked up for North American release (cheers to Strand Releasing), so its provocations and mysteries need not remain the preserve of a fortunate festival-going audience. Forced out of his job and to the safety of Hong Kong, he endeavors to discover the truth. With Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua, Anlian Yao. Forced out of his job and to the safety of Hong Kong, he endeavors to discover the truth. With its fractured, dissolving, indeterminate and unreliable narrators and a narrative marked by self-reflexive mise-en-abîme, Suzhou River deflates even the possibility of a stable subject, of a singular, reliable point-of-view, right from its opening river-boat montage. He starts by telling the story of a romance between himself and Meimei (Zhou Xun), a performer at a dive bar in Shanghai. Critic J. Hoberman praised the film's style: "Shot with a jostling, nervous camera, Suzhou River looks great—the showy jump cuts and off-kilter close-ups belie an extremely well edited, even supple, piece of work. if(typeof(W4GRB)=="undefined") Title: Mardar finally thinks he finds Moudan in a 24 hour shop. • Jia Hongsheng as Mardar (马达 Mǎdá), a small-time crook and motorcycle courier. During their brief encounters on his motorcycle, Mardar and Moudan fall in love. One day he is asked by a shady alcohol smuggler to deliver his sixteen-year-old daughter, Moudan, to her aunt. "[11] At the same time, however, he wrote that "Suzhou River's narrative is more than a bit cornball and not overly convincing—which is to say the movie's conviction is to be found in its formal values. Cynthia is a young Chinese woman in love with Itami, a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service. Mardar is then arrested and imprisoned. China, Germany, 2000. Wang is a self-proclaimed "hooligan" writer whose irreverent, sarcastic novels and stories put the conventions of narrative itself into question. editor: Karl Riedl Lou Ye, who spent his youth on the banks of the Suzhou, shows the river as a Chinese Styx, in which forgotten stories and mysteries come together. But their tender happiness is disrupted when Moudan thinks that Mardar has kidnapped her for a ransom. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. producer: Philippe Bober The music, too, is lushly orchestrated. The film ends with the ambiguous death of both Mardar and Moudan, leaving the viewer to decide if it was an accident or suicide. And performances are top-notch, especially Zhou Xun's in the double female role. What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. | Rating: 3/4 The videographer then begins relating the story of Mardar (Jia Hongsheng), a small-time crook and motorcycle courier, and Moudan (Zhou Xun), the daughter of a rich businessman, whom Mardar is hired to ferry around town whenever Moudan's father brings home one of his mistresses. |, February 7, 2001 The plan goes awry, however, and Moudan throws herself into the river and drowns. W4GRB.average_rating=new Array(); Having discovered that Mardar betrayed her, Moudan allegedly jumped off a bridge into the Suzhou River. Though well-received abroad, Suzhou River was not screened in its native China, as Lou Ye was banned from filmmaking for two years after screening his film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam without permission from Chinese authorities.[3]. } music: Jorg Lemberg The film opens with shots of the Suzhou River… Drama, Romance. |, July 4, 2005 She is so disappointed in him that she jumps off the bridge into the Suzhou River. Sort by: Lou Ye Director and Screenplay. One day, he is jolted out of his misery by a visitor, Mardar, a motorcycle courier, who has just been released from jail for kidnapping his teenage girlfriend, Moudan. The outstanding Chinese language film of the 2000 Hong Kong International Film Festival was Suzhou River, the only entry from mainland China, as it happens. A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The Chief of Construction Committee leaps to his death from a tall building. updatebox(1,W4GRB.average_rating[1]); Add the first question. Use the HTML below. The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty, but also a meeting place for memories and secrets. Mardar emerges from prison years later and encounters a nightclub entertainer who looks exactly like his lost love. A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. and the Terms and Policies, { The film resembles a contemporary film noir set in the seediest neighbourhoods of present day Shanghai, along the dirty, post-industrial Suzhou River that seems to wind through nothing but decaying warehouses and dusty factories on its way to Shanghai's waterfront. If Suzhou River has a key influence, then it might be Wang Shuo, the Beijing based bad-boy novelist.
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