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Farewell My Concubine Farewell My Concubine
Farewell My Concubine and Touki Bouki
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (Country: Canada; Year: 1985; Director: Brigitte Berman; Writer: Brigitte Berman; Stars: Artie Shaw, John Best, Lee Castle, Helen Forrest, Polly Haynes)
A documentary cataloguing the life and music of the band leader and clarinettist, Artie Shaw.
Farewell My Concubine (Ba Wang Bie Ji) (Country: China, Hong Kong; Year: 1993; Director: Chen Kaige; Writer: Lee Pik-Wah, Lu Wei; Stars: Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Ge You)
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Beijing in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
L'Amour Fou (Country: France; Year: 1969; Director: Jacques Rivette; Writer: Jacques Rivette, Marilù Parolini; Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop)
During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can't find a way to leave their personal problems at home.
Touki Bouki (Country: Senegal; Year: 1973; Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Writer: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Stars: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop, Christoph Colomb, Ndou Labia, Mustapha Ture)
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
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