Chic love, romantic city street scenes, changeable clothing styles... We recall Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, the golden age of Hong Kong movies, and our own unique memories of youth.
Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui's screen images span a huge range. When you mention them, which classic role do you think of? The lost Xu Zai, the decisive Ru Hua, the romantic Azhan, or the handsome King Qi Xuan?
Next week, everyone is welcome to renew their "youth" appointment. "Youth Renewed: Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui" is co-organized by the Shanghai Office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Shanghai Film Museum, Hong Kong Film Archive, and Shanghai Film Archive. "Hong Kong Film Retrospective" will be held from March 23 to April 1.
This film festival will bring you eight classic works, two of which are "Fate" and " Rouge Button " collaborated by Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui, as well as Leslie Cheung's three classic works: " A Chinese Ghost Story " and " Days of Being Wild " and "Across the World" are Anita Mui's three classic works: " Half a Lifetime ", " Zhong Wuyan " and " Man Forty ".
First, let’s introduce the issue of how to buy tickets that everyone is most concerned about:
The ticket opening time for general audiences is at 12:00 on Thursday, March 14th. Tickets can be purchased online at Taopiaopiao and Maoyan App, as well as offline. Purchase directly at Shanghai Cinemas. The
ticket price on the online platform is 90 yuan/piece for 4k movies and 75 yuan/piece for non-4k movies; offline tickets for Shanghai Cinemas are 85 yuan/piece for 4k movies and 70 yuan/piece for non-4k movies.
Next, I will introduce to you the highlights of the screened films.
Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui collaborated for the first time on the big screen, and they also collaborated to sing the original theme song, which is a powerful gift to movie fans. This was the starting point for Leslie Cheung, who was not well-known at the time, to embark on a real star journey. Anita Mui also won her first Academy Award for it. It is worth mentioning that this is also the second work of the young Maggie Cheung. How does a superstar take off? You will know a little bit about it after watching this movie.
In Li Bihua's original work, the infatuated Ruhua is played by Anita Mui, the cowardly young master, and Leslie Cheung's interpretation is hard to blame. Tell all about love, life and death, and the grudges between lovers. Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung collaborate again, sparks fly among the superstars. This film festival will bring a new 4k version, which will visually dazzle movie fans and make the colors of the Republic of China more lifelike.
is adapted from the classic chapter of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels, telling the love story of scholar Ning Caichen and female ghost Nie Xiaoqian. This film has excellent performance in everything from writing, directing, acting, photography, editing, sound, art, and special effects. Leslie Cheung's innate bookishness, immatureness and innocence, successfully shaped Ning Caichen into a straightforward and silly scholar, which became a screen classic. The episode "A Chinese Ghost Story" in which he sang the lead has a beautiful melody and is still sung to this day.
In Hong Kong in the 1960s, "searching" was an inevitable motif. Xu Zai describes himself as a "footless bird", always looking for his biological mother, looking for love, and looking for himself. Leslie Cheung and Wong Kar-Wai collaborated for the first time, carefully showing Xu Zai's inner emptiness and restlessness, and covering it up with his unrestrained and nonchalant appearance. His free acting skills won him the Best Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. Anita Mui sang the theme song "This Is It", and Zhang Mei performed and sang through cross-media collaboration and audio-visual dialogue. It was such a fate. The version shown this time is an extremely rare 95-minute version.
At the pinnacle of John Woo's romantic aesthetics, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-fat, and Chung Chu-hong, who were all in their respective golden periods, have left a classic trio in film history no less than "The Patriarch". Leslie Cheung was agile in the film and tried his best to do the action scenes personally. He endured a lot of hardships and presented a very unique and breakthrough screen character. "There are so many happy memories in the past, why not chase them with you" (lyrics of "The Wind Continues to Blow", theme song of "Across the World"). People of that era would chase after whatever they wanted at all costs. This film festival will bring a new 4k version.
Anita Mui and Ann Hui have a close relationship. This film adapted from Zhang Ailing's "Eighteen Spring" tells a story about the entanglement between lovers in Shanghai. Xu Anhua controls the film style under the realistic style. The cruel story and plain tone add to the tension. Anita Mui's background in Shanghai during the 1930s in the Republic of China was unconventional. Xu Anhua commented on her from this collaboration: "You don't need to sit there and work hard or cultivate your emotions. You can do it as soon as you turn on the camera." "The ability to comprehend is really amazing." This film It also allowed Anita Mui to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress again. This film festival will bring a new 4k version.
Johnnie To + Wei Jiahui seems to be a joke, but in fact, the banter reveals the truest side of love - sacrificing oneself for the sake of others may not be love. Love also includes occupation, destruction and destruction. "Chung Wu Yan" brings together three first-line actresses born in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Anita Mui, Sammi Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, . Anita Mui even disguises herself as a man, and her cross-dressing is better than that of a man, and she is crazy about her promiscuous and dissolute state. Cute and cute, it is a unique work among Anita Mui's works.
Ann Hui explores middle age again after "Women at 40", writing about this generation's sorrow for the loss of youth. It is also the last touch of color left by Anita Mui on the movie screen. She has completely subtracted herself and washed away all her glory. The traces of her performance have been gently erased and replaced by a haggard woman from an ordinary Hong Kong family.
Anita Mui's acting style fits Xu Anhua's style of calming the surface but concealing the turbulence of life, using the skin of sadness to digest heavy emotions, like running water. The overall mood of the film also extends to the theme song "It's Hard to Love" that she sang with Jacky Cheung. The dilemma lyrics complement the film. This pair of singers and singers get as close to the hearts of the characters as possible and try their best to portray the characters to the end.
