Ba wang bie ji
Ba wong bit gei
Director:
Kaige ChenCámara:
Changwei GuMúsica:
Jiping ZhaoReparto:
Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, You Ge, Qing Xu, Wenli Jiang, David Wu, Dan Li, Pu ZhouSinopsis(1)
Los militares gobiernan Pekín y, aunque en la ciudad la situación política es inestable, hay una constante en la vida cotidiana: la ópera, un espectáculo donde incluso los personajes femeninos deben ser representados por hombres. Entre los nuevos muchachos destinados a ser estrellas de la ópera de Pekín se encuentran el delicado Douzi y Shitou, que le toma bajo su protección. Ambos forjan una gran amistad, y Douzi se enamora profundamente del chico mayor. Como Douzi tiene la belleza de una mujer, le forman en papeles femeninos, mientras que al atlético Shitou le entrenan principalmente para papeles militares. Entre las óperas que estudian se encuentra "Adiós a mi concubina". (X Films S.A.)
(más)Reseñas (2)
A very intense film where you wouldn't expect it to be one of the best blends of personal drama, human drama, and societal drama. But that's exactly what you get from it, and on top of that, you also have very powerful scenes that are capable of etching themselves into your memory for a long time. A film that doesn't let you catch your breath.
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Life – masks – theatre. Chinese actors’ relationship to Chinese opera and Chinese opera’s relationship to the rest of society during five decades of Chinese history. Thanks to the colourfulness and composition of the shots, Farewell My Concubine is a captivating work that is not in any way harmed by its length. On the contrary, after an hour I had become accustomed to the different cultural environment and began to get into the story. The film contains historical facts, but they are less important than the atmosphere of the given era and opera’s significance within it. After the opening training of the future artists and the closing brutal suppression of one theatre by another (communist), this visually poetic film is not in any way indebted to China’s reputation as a harsh land. 80%
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