Suzhou River [In-Person Only]
Thu Sep 28: 7.30pm PDT
Fri Sep 29: 7.30pm PDT
Sat Sep 30: 5.00pm PDT (SOLD OUT!), 7.30pm PDT
Sun Oct 01: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
About
(Lou Ye, China & Germany, 2000, 83 min, in Mandarin with English subtitles)
** 4K restoration! **
Along the banks of the Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghai, Marda (Jia Hongshen) falls in love with a dramatically beautiful young woman named Moudan (Zhou Xun). When he tries to kidnap her in order to demand ransom money from her rich father, she escapes him, jumping in to the river and disappearing forever. Marda serves a three-year jail sentence for his attempted crime. Upon his release, he meets a woman that looks exactly like Moudan, named MeiMei (also played by Zhou Xun).
An exciting, action-filled mystery suspense movie, director Lou Ye’s Suzhou River shares many thematic and stylistic elements with Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Synopsis and stills courtesy of Strand Releasing.
“As much about style as about love, Suzhou River echoes a lot of films, from the Hong Kong style of Wong Kar-Wai to Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique, but the sum total is something with a freshness of its own.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“It’s hard not to be swept up by the strong current of Suzhou River: a seductive and atmospheric conundrum that works pleasingly as an exercise in storytelling.” – Lizzie Francke, Sight and Sound
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The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
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