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Suzhou River (DVD, 2003)

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Mardar and Moudan grow fond of each other. But their tender happiness is disrupted when Moudan thinks that Mardar has kidnapped her for a ransom. Mardar is now suspected of murder. SUZHOU RIVER - CHINESE DVD - REGION 2 - UK RELEASE - ARTIFICIAL EYE.

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Bearing some resemblance to the 'Vertigo' plot line. Marder, a criminal must mind Moudan, the daughter of a smuggler and they fall in love. When Marder is persuaded to kidnap and ransom her, she kills herself. Later he meets a woman called MeiMei who seems very familiar to him...

Product Identifiers

ProducerYe Lou, Philippe Bober

EAN5021866196305

eBay Product ID (ePID)3944527

Product Key Features

ActorNai an, Zhou Xun, Jia Hongshen

Film/TV TitleSuzhou River

DirectorLou Ye

LanguageMandarin

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time83 Mins

Aspect RatioWide Screen

Release Year2003

FormatDVD

FeaturesTheatrical Trailer\In Shanghai a Short Film by Lou Ye\Stills Gallery, Widescreen, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureChina

Additional InformationWith SUZHOU RIVER, director Lou Ye has created an intense, jerky visual and narrative style that captivates viewers and pulls them into the mystery of the film's dreamy, alluring tale of love and mistaken identities. The narrator--the voice behind the camera (literally) who occasionally sticks his hand out in front of the lens to spraypaint a stencil on the side of a building or pick up a drink from the bar--guides the viewer along the banks of the heavily polluted and industrialised Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghai, setting the scene for the major action of the film's plot. Back in his apartment, he tells the sad story of Marda (Jia Hongshen), a bicycle messenger who falls madly in love with a young girl named Moudan (Zhou Xun). Marda becomes entangled with a messy crime gang that forces him to kidnap Moudan and demand ransom money from her rich father. Moudan escapes from him before he receives the money and jumps into the poisonous river, promising that one day she'll return as a mermaid. Marda serves a three-year jail sentence for his crime, wracked with grief about causing Moudan's supposed death. Upon his release, he walks into a nightclub and sees a woman performing an underwater mermaid act in a tank. She looks exactly like Moudan, but she is named MeiMei (also played by Zhou). Coincidentally, MeiMei is dating the cameraman-narrator, bringing the plot full circle. An enticingly surreal film that is successful primarily for its narrative twists, SUZHOU RIVER shares many thematic elements with Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO.

ReviewsNew York Times - ...[Zhou Xun is] stunning....SUZHOU RIVER offers [a] captivating atmosphere..., Sight and Sound - ...A seductive and atmospheric conundrum that works pleasingly as an exercise in storytelling..., Total Film - ...Classily played and poetic, in its imagery of back-alley Shanghai and daring story-telling, SHUZHOU RIVER is a fine testimony to the vigour of China's younger generation of filmmakers...

ScreenwriterYe Lou

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleSuzhou River