2000 | People’s Republic of China, Germany | Fiction

苏州河 (Suzhou River)

  • Mandarin English 79 mins
  • Director | Lou Ye
  • Writer | Lou Ye
  • Producer | Nai An, Philippe Bober

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

A faceless, nameless videographer tells a love story set in Shanghai. Mardar is a motorcycle courier, Moudan is a young woman, whose father has hired him to drive her around. They fall in love. When Mardar takes part in a plot to kidnap Moudan, she throws herself into the Suzhou River. Years later, Mardar thinks he recognises his lost love – in the person of Meimei, the girlfriend of the video narrator, who performs as a mermaid in a nightclub

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