Summer Palace (film)

Summer Palace simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Yh Yun , is a 2006 Chinese film and the fourth feature film by director Lou Ye. The film was a ChineseFrench collaboration produced by Dream Factory, Laurel Films, Fantasy Pictures and Sylvain Bursztejns Rosem Films. It was made in association with Frances Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, Ministre des Affaires trangres and Centre National de la Cinmatographie CNC. The film is the first from mainland China to feature the fullfrontal adult nudity of both its male and female leads, though earlier films such as Xiao Wu 1998, Lan Yu 2001, Green Hat 2003, and Star Appeal 2004, have featured fullfrontal adult male nudity.

Spanning several cities and over a decade, Summer Palace tells the story of Yu Hong played by Hao Lei, a young woman from the bordercity of Tumen, who is accepted to the fictional Beiqing University, a name that evokes either Peking University Beida or Tsinghua University Qinghua. While in school, Yu Hong meets Li Ti, her best friend played by Hu Lingling, and Zhou Wei, her college boyfriend and the love of her life played by Guo Xiaodong. The film is divided into two parts. The first begins in the late 1980s subtitles inform the audience of the place and year at various points in the film, as Yu Hong enters the university. Lonely and isolated despite the cramped living conditions, Yu Hong eventually befriends another student, Li Ti, who introduces her to her boyfriend Ruo Gu played by Zhang Xianmin, and Ruo Gus friend Zhou Wei. Yu Hong and Zhou Wei embark upon a passionate but volatile love affair just as political forces are moving towards Tiananmen Square.Two events then bring the first half of the film to a close First, Zhou Wei, incensed at the jealousy and emotional instability of his girlfriend, begins to have an affair with Li Ti and second, the crackdown occurs on the students on Tiananmen Square and on the campus of Beida. During all of this, Yu Hongs old boyfriend Xiao Jun played by Cui Jin from Tumen arrives and the two of them leave, Yu Hong deciding that she will drop out from the university. ........

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