Date: Thursday 29th March 2012 NOTE: This is a departure from the usual timing (3rd Thursday) due to WCC renovations.
Time: 7.00pm – 9:50pm NOTE: Due to the length of this film, the screening will start promptly at 7pm.
Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street
Gold Coin Donation
Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬 [170 minutes] with English subtitle.
Director: Chen Kaige 导演: 陈凯歌.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Ge You, Jiang Wenli
“Farewell, My Concubine” is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.
段小楼（张丰毅）与程蝶衣（张国荣）是一对打小一起长大的师兄弟，两人一个演生，一个饰旦，一向配合天衣无缝，尤其一出《霸王别姬》，更是誉满京城，为此，两人约定合演一辈子《霸王别姬》。但两人对戏剧与人生关系的理解有本质不同，段小楼深知戏非人生，程蝶衣则是人戏不分。
段小楼在认为该成家立业之时迎娶了名妓菊仙（巩俐），致使程蝶衣认定菊仙是可耻的第三者，使段小楼做了叛徒，自此，三人围绕一出《霸王别姬》生出的爱恨情仇战开始随着时代风云的变迁不断升级，终酿成悲剧。
