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    Farewell My Concubine

    R1993 · Drama · 2h 37m
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  3. Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese-Hong Kong epic historical drama film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi. Adapted for the screen by Lu Wei, based on the novel by Lilian Lee , the film is set in a politically tumultuous 20th-century China, from the early days of the Republic of China to the aftermath ...

  4. Oct 15, 1993 · Farewell My Concubine: Directed by Kaige Chen. With Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge. Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

    • (33K)
    • Drama, Music, Romance
    • Kaige Chen
    • 1993-10-15
  5. Sep 21, 2023 · “Farewell My Concubine” takes place in a world unlike most of those occupied by its viewers, but the emotions and empathetic storytelling make it current and resonant. Like a great opera, Chen's film will transcend centuries and maintain its power.

  6. Oct 29, 1993 · Roger Ebert October 29, 1993. Tweet. May contain spoilers. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Farewell My Concubine" is two films at once: An epic spanning a half-century of modern Chinese history, and a melodrama about life backstage at the famed Peking Opera. The idea of viewing modern China through the eyes of two of the opera's stars ...

  7. Spanning fifty years of twentieth-century Chinese history, Farewell My Concubine follows aspiring actors Cheng Dieyi (a heartbreaking Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) as they emerge from a childhood of brutal training to become Beijing-opera stars, with life mirroring art as Dieyi’s unrequited love for Xiaolou and the country ...

    • Cheng Dieyi
  8. Sep 12, 2023 · The masterpiece among those masterpieces has to be “Farewell My Concubine,” a true epic, a Chinese “Doctor Zhivago” that takes a Chinese opera relationship between “stage brothers” from the 1920s and an “Oliver Twist” youth with beatings and a suicide in opera school, through the Sino-Japanese War (WWII), the Communist takeover ...

  9. Chen Kaige's much acclaimed, long out of print masterpiece chronicles the rise of two young stars of the Beijing Opera House, their turbulent relationship, and ultimate downfalls.

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    • Drama, LGBTQ+
    • R