Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Film Screening: Summer Palace @ Freer Sackler
by Svetlana 
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| March 16, 2008 | ||
| 1:30 pm |
SUMMER PALACE
Sunday, March 16, 2008, 1:30 pm, Meyer Auditorium
Lou Ye’s masterful, passionate epic shadows a group of friends over fourteen years of recent Chinese history—a time when their personal lives become as tumultuous as the world around them. The Chinese government banned Lou from directing for five years due to the film’s controversial sexual explicitness and its portrayal of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Intended for mature audiences. 2006 / 140 min. / Mandarin, German, and Korean with English subtitles
Freer film programmer Tom Vick introduces this screening. After the film he signs copies of his recently published book Asian Cinema: A Field Guide.
http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp
