Ju Dou
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Director: Yimou Zhang
1990 / 95min / 4K DCP
Gong Li commandingly inhabits the title role, that of a beautiful country girl sold into a potentially calamitous marriage with the notoriously sadistic owner of a silk-dyeing mill (Li Wei) in 1920s rural China, in Zhang’s erotically charged, controversy-courting adaptation of a novel by Liu Heng, made in eye-popping three-strip Technicolor that might cause Douglas Sirk himself to blush. (The equipment needed for the process found its way to the PRC after being discarded by US labs.) “The ending of Ju Dou is as lurid and melodramatic as anything conceived by Poe or filmed by Buñuel, and it exhibits justice completely untempered by mercy… [The photography] a brilliance not seen in Hollywood films since the golden age of the MGM musicals.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The digital restoration was effected at Hiventy Laboratory (Paris) by IMPEX Films with the support of ARTE, France.
Distributor: Film Movement
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