Rouge

1987 [CANTONESE]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Music / Mystery / Romance

6
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 4004 4K

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Plot summary

Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.

Director

Stanley Kwan Photo
Stanley Kwan

Top cast

Alex Man Photo
Alex Man as Yuen-Ting
Leslie Cheung Photo
Leslie Cheung as Chan Chen-Pang
Irene Wan Photo
Irene Wan as Shu-Hsien
Anita Mui Photo
Anita Mui as Fleur
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892.02 MB
1280*682
Cantonese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 1
1.79 GB
1920*1024
Cantonese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by DanTheMan2150AD 8 / 10

Does love really last forever?

Unhappy together. An exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history, Rouge is made all the more surreal thanks to its transcendently melancholy mood that's as illusory as time itself. One that feels all the more resonant and devastating due to real life coming to echo the film, with this already sombre love story made all the more tragic by the untimely deaths of its two leads. It's a subtle exploration of the differences between its periods, achieved through simple juxtaposition, particularly in terms of contrasting societal attitudes toward love and marriage. Director Stanley Kwan renders the two time periods in radically different ways, the thirties in florid images and modern times in muted tones; the lurid dramas of history functioning as stimulants for neutered passions of what was modern society, a journey to a time seemingly glamorous, yet everything always has a spell that can never be broken. But it's the lead performers that simply dominate and overshadow the plot from beginning to end. Cheung brings an enormous sensitivity and vulnerability to his role. He is impulsive and romantic, but also weak-minded and cowardly. Mui is simply radiant as Fleur. She has such a careful and precise control over her presence and presentation throughout the film. Above all, she gives her character a tremendous dignity. Does love really last forever? Infused with both a sense of nostalgia and, ultimately, an interrogation of that nostalgia, by Rouge's end, the sadness over the loss of the past seems to fade away. Ending on a forward-looking basis: the past has brought pain and regret, and the future is free of it, inviting its audience, in the end, things are probably going to be better in the years to come than the ones that have passed.
Reviewed by n-19024-42530 7 / 10

Don't love so hard

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