The intimate and romantic world of Stanley Kwan with the biggest Hong Kong stars
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BLU-RAY BOX SET
" A WORK TO REDISCOVER, AS CAPTIVATING AS AN OPIATIC DREAM ."
L'OBS
HAS Like his compatriot Wong Kar-wai, Stanley Kwan is a virtuoso of melodrama, whose codes he masters with rare delicacy and sincerity. A filmmaker with an avowed homosexuality, sensitive to the desires and struggles of women, Stanley Kwan offers through his films choice showcases to the big names of Hong Kong cinema, such as Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung or Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Available for the first time in their new 4K and 2K restorations, Fallen Loves , Red , Center Stage (Director's Cut) and Lan Yu combine a majestic melancholy with complex reflections on Chinese and Hong Kong society.
Available in 4 Blu-ray box set
Hard case + digipack
New 4K and 2K restorations
Original versions with French subtitles
THE 4 FILMS
BLU-RAY 1: FALLEN LOVES (1986 – Color – 98 min – 2K Restoration)
The lives of a trio of friends with dreams of glory are turned upside down the day one of them is found murdered.
BLU-RAY 2: RED (1987 – Color – 98 min – 4K Restoration)
The passionate love affair between a courtesan and a young aristocrat, beyond death and time.
BLU-RAY 3: CENTER STAGE – Director's Cut (1991 – Color and B&W – 155 min – 4K Restoration)
Portrait of Ruan Lingyu, a silent film star with a tragic fate in 1930s Shanghai.
BLU-RAY 4: LAN YU (2001 – Color – 87 min – 4K restoration)
The passionate affair of two men who are socially opposed in Beijing in the late 1980s.
AN UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTARY
YIN ± YANG: GENRE IN CHINESE CINEMA (1997 – 1.33 format respected – Colors and B&W – 79 mins)
A personal account of the history of Chinese cinema by Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan, which particularly examines issues of gender and sexuality.
SUPPLEMENTS
• 2 UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED AND DIRECTED BY YVES MONTMAYEUR: " A CINEMA OF GENRES MADE IN HK" BY STANLEY KWAN (36 mins) + " MAGGIE CHEUNG BY… MAGGIE" (27 mins)
• 2 INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTOR STANLEY KWAN (24 mins)
• AN INTERVIEW WITH CINEMA CRITICIS AND HISTORIAN PAUL FONOROFF (13 mins)
• THE MAKING-OF OF “ LAN YU ” (37 mins)
• 4 ORIGINAL TRAILERS
• TRAILER FOR THE RETROSPECTIVE "STANLEY KWAN, ROMANTICISM MADE IN HONG KONG" (HD)
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4 BD • HIGH DEFINITION MASTERS • 1080/23.98p • AVC ENCODING
Original Version DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, 2.0 & 1.0 • Subtitles French
1.85 format respected • Colors and Black & White • Total duration of the films: 438 mins
Released October 1, 2024
