(indieWIRE/ 03.08.01) — Like last year’s arthouse sleeper, Lou Ye‘s “Suzhou River,” Wang Xiaoshuai‘s “So Close to Paradise,” which opens Friday at The Screening Room in New York, is set along seedy ...

Suzhou River and its little mermaid, Zhou Xun. Zhou Xun in the dual role of Moudan and Meimei in Suzhou River. Along the filthy spill that is the Suzhou River, Shanghai’s main arterial waterway, a ...

After the initial release of “Suzhou River” in 2000, the People’s Republic of China saw fit to ban its director, Lou Ye, from making movies for two years. The reason? Mr. Lou had the audacity to ...

Suzhou River, a first feature playing this week at Facets Multimedia Center, is an affecting, romantic, and fascinating mood piece from China. It’s been getting a bit of flak from critics who call it ...

Writer-director Lou Ye, a figurehead in the Chinese “Sixth Generation” of filmmakers (shorthand definition: post-Zhang Yimou) disguises the tone-poem intentions of this moody movie behind a facade of ...

Shanghai, China, Oct. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Shanghai Suzhou River Urban Public Art Collection" will be officially launched on September 23rd. This event is hosted by Shanghai Municipal ...

A complex and beguiling clutter of movie-movie reference points and vibrant real-world impressions of Shanghai, Lou Ye's Suzhou River retools Hitchcock's Vertigo to lend a splash of colorful fantasy ...

Metaphoric tale about the obsessive love between a videographer and the mysterious woman who makes her living as a "mermaid" at a sleazy club. Zhou Xun, Jia Hongshen. Directed by Lou Ye. Lou Ye's edgy ...