Lan Yu

Name: Lan Yu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: July 26, 2002
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Bin Li, Fan Zhang, Fang Lu, He Du, Huatong Li

2002

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: July 26, 2002 | R

Starring: Bin Li, Fan Zhang, Fang Lu, He Du, Huatong Li, Jin Su, Jingyi Liu, Jun Hu, Shuang Li, Ye Liu

Summary: Adapted from the internet novel "Beijing Story," this is the story of a young gay student and his relationship with an older man set against the uprising of Tiananmen Square. [Strand Releasing]

Director: Stanley Kwan

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 86 min

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The Guardian Ryan Gilbey

It remains among the strongest of the wave of gay-themed Chinese features from the late-20th and early-21st century (along with Fish and Elephant and East Palace, West Palace), elegantly interleaving its social and political commentary. Read full review

David Chute

The complex narrative counterpoint is anchored by a rock-solid performance by one of the world's great actors, the Beijing theater veteran Hu Jun. Read full review

Steven Rea

It's not often that Chinese cinema tackles same-sex relationships, and rarer still to see a film of such stark, muted emotion coming from mainland China. Read full review

Patrick Z. McGavin

Wong Kar-wai made a much more dynamic film, "Happy Together," five years ago. Lan Yu suffers by comparison. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Lan Yu is like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to Mr. Wong's "In the Mood for Love" -- very much a Hong Kong movie despite its mainland setting. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Andy Klein

Filled with sharp observations and interesting, often subtle, bits of visual trickery, much of it evoking the technique of Douglas Sirk's American domestic melodramas. Still, the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

For all of its careful realism, Lan Yu is constructed around clichés, plummeting toward a modestly heroic sacrifice and a tearjerking act of fate. But Kwan is a master of shadow, quietude, and room noise, and Lan Yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie. Read full review

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