'Forever enthralled' - Europalia China

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Chen Kaige - CHIN – 2008 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 147’ – OV / VO – EN SBT

(Mei Lanfang)

Directed in 2009, Chen Kaige acknowledges this as the twin of Farewell My Concubine. Like the main character in that 1993 Cannes prizewinner, the main character, Mei Lanfant (who died in 1961) was a star singer at the Peking Opera, also performing many of his roles were in drag. In this magisterial work, Chen depicts the man’s dogged rivalry with another singer and his ultimate triumph on Broadway.

With: Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang

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Coprod. Flagey, Cinematek

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'Rachel'

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Simone Bitton - F/B – 2009 – documentaire – kleur / couleur – 100’ – VO / OV – NL OND / STT FR

Documentary about the 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie who was crushed to death in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home. Director Simone Bitton returned five years later to the scene of the tragedy in the Gaza strip, and talked to witnesses from either side of the divide, reconstructing the young woman’s life while also offering thoughts on idealism, political commitment and utopias.

Screening on tue 05.01 in presence of the director Simone Bitton

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'Eccentricities of a blond hair girl'

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Manoel de Oliveira - PT / E / F – 2009 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 64’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR

(Singularidades de uma rapariga loura)
Portuguese film-maker Manuel de Oliveira, who is still going strong although he is over 100 years old, produced this laidback farce about the unpredictability of love. A young accountant in Lisbon (the director’s grandson Ricardo Trêpa) falls passionately in love with a woman he glimpses in the office courtyard. The story ends with an delightful last-minute twist.

With: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Luis Miguel Cintra

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