Description: Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of Flowers of Shanghai (1998). This is the first pressing from 2021. It is not sealed (I opened it when I first got it), and I watched it one time. Description from Criterion: "An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work to buy back their freedom. Among the regular clients is the taciturn Master Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), whose relationship with his longtime mistress (Michiko Hada) is roiled by a perceived act of betrayal. Composed in a languorous procession of entrancing long takes, Flowers of Shanghai evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty, an insular universe where much of the dramatic action remains tantalizingly offscreen—even as its emotional fallout registers with quiet devastation."
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Format: Blu-ray
Type: Movie
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Language: Cantonese
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle Language: English
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Features: Behind The Scenes Featurette, Retrospective Interviews
Genre: Drama
Movie/TV Title: Flowers of Shanghai
Studio: The Criterion Collection
