Chinese Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 28, 2007

Harrison Kash
(417) 625-9614

 

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - The first film in the Chinese Film Festival at Missouri Southern State University will be Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua ).

 

The film will be shown at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007 in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall at MSSU.

Directed by Zhang Yimou (1991), this is a stunningly directed film which follows the plight of a beautiful, educated young woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy, powerful nobleman.

 

James Berardanelli has written: "Raise the Red Lantern is one of those all-too-rare motion pictures capable of enthralling audience members while they're watching it, then haunting them for hours (or days) thereafter. With its simple story and complex themes and emotions, Raise the Red Lantern hints at the kind of film a great director like Ingmar Bergman might have made had he attempted a story set in mainland China."

 

Berardanelli's complete review is available on the web at http://www.reelviews.net/movies/r/raise.html.

 

The film at MSSU is free and open to the public.