A still from director Chen Kaige's 1993 film "Farewell My Concubine." (Courtesy Film Movement Classics) Unavailable for years except via bootlegs and old, out-of-print Miramax DVDs, director Chen ...
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige’s historical epic, Farewell My Concubine, spans fifty years of 20th-century Chinese history while shining a spotlight on the ...
You’d be hard-pressed to find a film covering more historical tumult than Farewell My Concubine, a deeply felt blurring of the line between art and performer. Director Chen Kaige’s masterwork follows ...
Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...
A 4K uncut restoration of Chen Kaige’s 1993 Palme d’Or winner “Farewell My Concubine” is a highlight of the Toronto International Film Festival‘s (TIFF) Classics strand while Jean-Luc Godard‘s last ...