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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0712267211227
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Strand Releasing
Languages: EnglishSubtitledCantoneseOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Strand Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 04, 2003
Running Time: 119 minutes
Studio: Strand Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Editorial Review:
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In the heart breaking tradition of Farewell to My Concubine, Fleeing By Night is a lush period piece that follows the love triangle of three men against the backdrop of the Chinese opera and wonderfully conveys a universal tale of unrequited love. Written and directed by a producer of both The Wedding Banquet and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this film was an official selection of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. One of the most striking film s to come out of Asia in recent years, this Chinese epic has everything: romance, history, spectacle and sheer go-for-broke melodrama. Yet, as directed by LI-Kong Hsu and Chi Yin from a screenplay by Hui-Ling Wang and Ming-Xia Wang, Fleeing By Night makes its greatest impression though subtlety. Set primarily in the 1930's, it tells of the unrequited passion of a theater owner's daughter and the cellist who would have been her fiancé for a mesmerizing Chinese opera star who is kept by a wealthy, controlling, yet oddly sympathetic lover.
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"Fleeing By Night"
A Mesmerizing Film
Amos Lassen
"Fleeing By Night" (Ya Ben) is set in China in the 1930's and is about three characters who are involved in an unsettling relationship. Ing'er is the daughter of a theater owner and she welcomes the return of her fiancée, Shao-dung, a cellist who has been living in America. Shao-dung finds himself enamored by the opera "Fleeing by Night" and its star, Lin Chung, who has a magical voice that seems to come from ... Read More
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I got it to continue to hear Chinese. It is good Mandarin, easier to understand than most Chinese films. The period sets and visualization of the characters aging and of the history is excellent. The cinematography is well above average and makes the movie superb technically. this is the feast for the eyes.
The continuity is a bit off. Possibly the underlying opera is so well known that it doesn't need to be but hinted at for Chinese audiences, but for Western viewers the movie comes across ... Read More
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This is a mesmorizing, story of a man who returns home to China to marry but is enthralled by the performance of a male opera star; a lyrically told story of two intersecting love triangles. Flawless!
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FLEEING BY NIGHT
[Ye Ben]
(China/Taiwan - 2000)
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Theatrical soundtrack: Dolby Digital
Tianjin, the late 1930's: A young cellist (Huang Lei) returns home from studies abroad and makes preparations to marry his childhood sweetheart (Rene Liu Re-ying), the daughter of a wealthy businessman. But the relationship is soured when Huang meets and falls in love with a male Chinese opera singer (Yin Chao-te) who is being pimped by his ... Read More
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I am not going to rave about the sets, or the acting, or the quality of the production. They were all very good.
The film is narrated intermittently by the cellist and his fiance, in the form of letters to each other while they are apart at different points in the movie, and I really thought this added to the somber, but also romantic, mood
The background musical scores are beautiful, sometimes touching, often tragic.
This film was absolutely charming, and at the same ... Read More
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