1987 · drama · romance · fantasy
Rouge
Directed by Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang1h 36m1987
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.
Our read: Rouge (1987) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · romance · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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