Spring Fever (2009 film)
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Directed by | Lou Ye |
Produced by | Nai An Sylvain Bursztejn Lou Ye |
Written by | Mei Feng |
Starring | Qin Hao Chen Sicheng Tan Zhuo Wu Wei Jiang Jiaqi |
Music by | Peyman Yazdanian |
Cinematography | Zeng Jian |
Edited by | Robin Weng Zeng Jian Florence Bresson |
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Distributed by | Le Pacte |
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116 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong France China |
Language | Mandarin Chinese |
Spring Fever (Chinese: 春風沉醉的夜晚; literally: "A Night Deeply Drunk on the Spring Breeze") is a 2009 Chinese film directed by Lou Ye. The production of the film is in defiance of a five-year ban on filmmaking imposed by China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) for his previous film, Summer Palace.[1] Filmed in Nanjing, the film was described to be about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings.[2]
By the time of the film's premiere at the Cannes Festival on 13 May 2009, it was known that Lou had circumvented the five-year ban imposed upon him after Summer Palace by having Spring Fever registered as a Hong Kong/French co-production.[3]
Plot
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Cast
- Qin Hao (Chinese: 秦昊) as Jiang Cheng (Chinese: 江诚)
- Chen Sicheng (Chinese: 陈思成) as Luo Haitao (Chinese: 罗海涛)
- Tan Zhuo (Chinese: 谭卓) as Li Jing (Chinese: 李静)
- Wu Wei (Chinese: 吴伟) as Wang Ping (Chinese: 王平)
- Jiang Jiaqi (Chinese: 江佳奇) as Lin Xue (Chinese: 林雪)
Release
In April 2009, it was announced that Spring Fever was to be shown in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5] Little else was known about the film at the time, except that Lou was in the process of editing the film in Paris.[1] Like Summer Palace, Spring Fever was to be screened without government approval.[1]
Reception
An early review by industry watcher Variety, following Spring Fever's premiere in the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, was critical of the film's "overlong" running-length of 116 minutes, and its overly "Euro tastes (and Western sensibilities)," especially when compared with Lou's breakout film Suzhou River.[3]
The film won the award for Best Screenplay at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for its writer Mei Feng.[4]
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External links
- Official website (French)
- Spring Fever at AllMovie
- Spring Fever at Box Office Mojo
- Spring Fever at Cannes Film Festival
- Spring Fever at the Chinese Movie Database
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Spring Fever at IMDb
- Spring Fever at Metacritic
- Spring Fever at Rotten Tomatoes
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