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Suzhou River (2000) | User Rating
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Original title: Suzhou he
Release Date
• USA: Nov 10, 2000
• UK: 17 Nov 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 30, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 23 minutes
Country Germany, China
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Suzhou River (2000)
• Suzhou he
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Genre: Drama, Suspense, Experimental, Love, Kidnapping
Plot: With SUZHOU RIVER, director Lou Ye has created an intense, jerky visual and narrative style that captivates viewers and pulls them into the mystery of the film's dreamy, alluring tale of love and mistaken identities. The narrator--the voice behind the camera (literally) who occasionally sticks his hand out in front of the lens to spraypaint a stencil on the side of a building or pick up a drink from the bar--guides the viewer along the banks of the heavily polluted and industrialized Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghia, setting the scene for the major action of the film's plot. Back in his apartment, he tells the sad story of Marda (Jia Hongshen), a bicycle messenger who falls madly in love with a young girl named Moudan (Zhou Xun). Marda becomes entangled with a messy crime gang that forces him to kidnap Moudan and demand ransom money from her rich father. Moudan escapes from him before he receives the money and jumps into the poisonous river, promising that one day she'll return as a mermaid. Marda serves a three-year jail sentence for his crime, wracked with grief about causing Moudan's supposed death. Upon his release, he walks into a nightclub and sees a woman performing an underwater mermaid act in a tank. She looks exactly like Moudan, but she is named
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Xun Zhou
The Emperor and the Assassin, Beijing Bicycle, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | | | | | |
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| Music By |
Jörg Lemberg
Purple Butterfly, Tatort - Atemnot, Tatort - Die Liebe der Schlachter |
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