The brilliant Chinese director Wong Kar Wai has ranked Springtime in a Small Town one of the five most important films in his life!
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, Springtime in a Small Town is based on a classic 1949 film of the same name, telling the story of a touching and complex love triangle just after the Second World War.
The eight-year marriage of Dai Liyan (Wu Jun) and Yuwen (Hu Jing Fan) has left them both unfulfilled and distant. An unexpected visitor arrives from Shanghai, a smartly dressed doctor called Zhang Zhichen (Bai Qing). He's an old school friend of Dai Liyan's and unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen's childhood sweetheart. Delighted to be re-acquainted with Zhang, the husband believes that his cultivated guest would be a suitable match for his wife's lively schoolgirl sister, Dai Xiu (Lu Sisi). In turn, Yuwen believes that her former flame could be the solution to her own unhappiness. Elegantly shot in long takes and drifting tracking shots by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping Bing (In The Mood For Love, Millennium Mambo), this is a tightly controlled tale of thwarted desires.
Reviews: "A MUST SEE." -J. Hoberman, The Village Voice "NOTHING SHORT OF TRIUMPHANT." -Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times "ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR." -Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
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