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Ruan Ling Yu
dir. Stanley Kwan
Hong Kong 1991, 154’
subtitles: Polish and English

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St 16 Nov, 12:45
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Credits
Hong Kong 1991
Duration: 154’
director: Stanley Kwan
screenplay: Peggy Chiao
cinematography: Hang-Sang Poon
editing: Peter Cheung, Chuen-Tak Keung
music: Siu Chung
cast: Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Carina Lau
producer: Jackie Chan, Willie Chan, Leonard Ho, Siu-Ming Tsui, Yongning Zhang
production: Golden Harvest Company
language: Cantonese, Mandarin, English
colouration: colour
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Film description

Ruan Lingyu was a tragic legend of the silent era of Chinese cinema. An ambitious actress, she achieved great success at a young age, but paid the ultimate price for it – she died prematurely, by her own hand. Years later, hoping to get a better understanding of her, Stanley Kwan decided to take a closer look at her life, and invited Maggie Cheung herself to play the leading role. He also found Ruan Lingyu's old films and interviewed older filmmakers who had worked with her personally.

Kwan uses the formula of a biographical film, but interweaves scenes reconstructing the most important events in the actress's life with documentary sequences. In this way, he brings out much more from the convention than one would expect from a typical biopic. The film becomes not only a story about an extraordinary woman ahead of her time, but also about the essence of acting and cinema.

text:
Marcin Krasnowolski

Stanley Kwan

Selected filmography:

1985 Kobiety / Nu ren xin/ Women
1986 Miłość na straty / Dei ha ching / Love Unto Waste 
1987 Yim ji kau / Rouge
1989 Ren zai Niu Yue / Full Moon in New York
1991 Aktorka / Ruan Ling Yu / Center Stage 
1998 Yue kuai le, yue duo luo / Hold You Tight 
2001 Lan Yu
2005 Chang hen ge / Everlasting Regret
2018 Baat go leuiyan, yat toi hei / First Night Nerves

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