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Lou Ye - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Lowe E - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor.
Born March 1, 1965, Shanghai, China - Chinese film director, screenwriter, producer and editor.
Educated at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he shot his first film - "Lover on the Weekend", which was not released for two years due to the veto of state censors. As a result, his second picture "The Girl in Danger" (1994) first hit the screens.
Lou Ye's third film, The Mystery of the Suzhou River (2000), is a neo-noir film that brought the director worldwide recognition. The questions posed in the film about the uniqueness of personality have caused a lot of controversy in China. Western critics have compared the picture to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film "Vertigo". In both films, the main character is a man possessed by a mysterious stranger.
In 2003, Lou Ye released a new film, Purple Butterfly, starring Chinese film star Zhang Ziyi as a member of the Resistance movement. The film is set during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. This is a story of betrayal and revenge, told, like the director's previous work, in the noir genre.
The film Summer Palace, released in 2006, caused a real scandal. The passionate love story of two students against the backdrop of political protests and events in Tiananmen Square in 1989 led to Low's conflict with the Chinese authorities. As a result, the government banned the director and producer from making films for five years. Such a long term is due to the fact that this is the second punishment for Lowe E. The first, two-year, ban on filming he received for the film "The Mystery of the Suzhou River."
As a result, his latest film to date, Spring Fever, was filmed in 2009 jointly by Hong Kong and French studios in Nanjing. The film focuses on a detective story and the unpopular theme of homosexual love in Chinese cinema. The film became the only Asian participant in the Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay Award.
In his films, Lowe explores the issues of sexuality and obsession, which is why they all cause heated debate within Chinese society and no less enthusiastic delight among Western critics.
