- MYSTERY: FILM CLIPS: " CLIP #1" (FR) -
Un Certain Regard Opening Film " MYSTERY " Directed by: LOU Ye Country: CHINA, FRANCE Year: 2012 Duration: 100.00 minutes Credits: LOU Ye - Director LOU Ye - Screenplay Feng MEI - Screenplay Fan YOU - Screenplay Jian ZENG - Cinematography Shaoying PENG - Set Designer Peyman YAZDANIAN - Music Gaston JACQUET - Film Editor Kang FU - Sound Actors: Xi QI Lei HAO QIN Hao Synopsis: Lu Jie has no idea her husband Yongzhao is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles - and it's just the beginning. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental... *** Lu Jie est loin d'imaginer que son mari Yongzhao mène une double vie, jusqu'au jour où elle le voit entrer dans un hôtel avec une jeune femme. La vie de Lu Jie s'effondre alors, et ce n'est que le début... La jeune femme meurt renversée par une voiture peu de temps après. Le policier en charge de l'affaire refuse de croire à un accident... LOU YE BIOGRAPHY: Lou Ye , born in 1965, is a Chinese screenwriter, director and producer. The son of actors, Lou Ye graduated in 1983 from the Shangai School of Fine Arts (in animation) then joined the Beijing Film Academy (Filmmaking Department) in 1989. Lou Ye is part of a new generation of Chinese filmmakers who are open to the West and ready to tackle themes issuing from all cultures. He worked as an assistant before directing his own debut film in 1994: WEEKEND LOVER. A portrait of disaffected youth in Shangai, the film was banned for two years in China, but received the Werner Fassbinder Award for Best Direction at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 1996. Also interested in production, Lou Ye initiated the ”Super City” project for television, with contributions from 10 of the most promising Chinese directors of the time, and established the production company Dream Factory. In 2000, western audiences discovered Lou Ye through his second feature, SUZHOU RIVER, which he wrote, directed and co-produced. Secretly shot on the streets of Shangai, the film attracted widespread international acclaim and was banned in China for having been presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival without permission from the Chinese authorities. In 2003, Lou Ye was recognized for the ambitious PURPLE BUTTERFLY, with Zhang Ziyi, which portrayed the conflict between China and Japan in the 1930s. The film was selected in Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, as was SUMMER PALACE three years later. In this latter film, Lou Ye revisited the Tiannnmen Square events through the erotic relationship of two students. For breaking this taboo, the director was banned again from making and producing films in China for five years. Shot clandestinely in China and bearing French and Hong Kong nationality to avoid censorship, SPRING FEVER received the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Two years later, Lou Ye returned with LOVE AND BRUISES, shot in France, and starring Tahar Rahim. The film was presented at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012, MYSTERY is selected for the opening night of Un Certain Regard in Cannes. MYSTERY confirms the official return of Lou Ye in China, after 5 years of censorship. Like all of his recent films, MYSTERY is a French coproduction. © Copyright Wild Bunch Distribution 2012.