Summer Palace Again on January 2008
After a ground breaking release in China and France because certainly it is the most erotic and sexually explicit film to come from mainland China, SUMMER PALACE. Now it will be aired again around the globe in theatres this coming January 2008. Some reviews before presented the shots as unprofessional and are really bummer. Just wondring why air it again. What might be the sexual or political idealism that lies behind this movie which made it really controversial before in China. Anyway, below is the plot summary of the film.
The Plot:
Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Protests collapse, and Yu and Zhou lose each other amidst the social chaos and panicked crowds. Zhou Wei is sent to a summer military camp, and on his release moves to Berlin, fleeing both his country and memories of Yu. She finds a job, a lover, but can not forget Zhou. In Germany, social unrest is mounting: calls for freedom, demonstrations for democracy. A familiar story for Zhou. Weary, still haunted by Yu, he returns to China as the Berlin Wall crashes down. He finds her at last, in a small town. From evening to dawn, their future stretches before them, two changed souls in a changed world.
