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SUZHOU RIVERDir: Lou Ye2000, 83 minutes (2000) Starring: Zhou Xun , Jia Hongshen  Director Lou Ye achieves the near impossible by turning the smelly and unlovely Suzhou River that runs through Shanghai into a romantic and mysterious locale for a magical realist love story. Motorcycle messenger Mardar is guilt stricken when he causes his young girlfriend Moudan to throw herself into the Suzhou River and drown. Years later when he finds a girl who looks just like her doing a mermaid act in a huge fish tank in a nightclub, obsession is almost inevitable. Overtones of Hitchcock’s Vertigo? That’s no accident. But although Suzhou River is a tribute, it is also a love poem to Shanghai with a disturbing appeal all its own. |
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