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The Wild, Wild Rose

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Original title

Ye mei gui zhi lian

Year

1960

Running time

128 min.

Country

Hong Kong

Director

Wong Tin-Lam

Screenwriter

Qin Yifu

Cast

Music

Ryôichi Hattori, Yao Min

Cinematography

Huang Ming

Producer

MP&GI

Genre

Film noir. Musical

Synopsis

Adapted from Bizet's opera Carmen and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel, The Wild, Wild Rose is undoubtedly one of the classics in the Hong Kong cinema in every sense of the word.
Grace Chang (Ge Lan) gives her most mesmerizing performance as a sensuous nightclub singer who seduces and destroys both herself and the man she loves.Significantly, she's by no means a typical chanteuse. She has complete artistic control over what she does and uses her act to make statements. She's individualistic and feisty, "wild", a rose with thorns.
Liang Hanhua (Yang Chang) takes a job as nightclub pianist. He's trained as a classical musician, and despises "nightclub" people". He represents the old scholar class who disdained the world of merchants the nightclub patrons come from. Old money and education, however, mean nothing now that war and dislocation have wrecked traditional values. Throughout the film, there are allusions to class, status and social mores, which Sijia challenges.

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The Wild, Wild Rose

1960

Wong Tin-Lam