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Chinese Auteur Lou Ye Continues to Experiment, Confirms That Cannes Title ‘An Unfinished Film’ Remains to Be Completed
Chinese auteur, Lou Ye continues to experiment and confirms that his Cannes title ‘An Unfinished Film’ remains to be completed.
Chinese auteur director Lou Ye kept short his visit to Xining and the First International Film Festival, scuttling back to Beijing as soon as his mentorship duties were completed. Lou has earned respect not just from films such as “Suzhou River,” “Spring Fever” and “Saturday Fiction” which have had international festival careers, or the five-year ban from filmmaking that he picked up by defying China’s censors with romantic drama “Summer Palace.” It also comes from his audacious and relentless focus on social dynamics. Rather than going for the “screenlife” approach, where an entire film is created within a computer, Lou chose to reconstruct real dialog and have actors to voice the lines.
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