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| Alias: Behind the Forbidden City |
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Origin: China
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Genre:
Queer/GLBT
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China’s first queer feature — a poetic, provocative confrontation between desire and authority. Set over one night in a Beijing police station, East Palace, West Palace follows a gay writer who deliberately provokes arrest, then interrogates his closeted captor through stories of love and longing. What begins as punishment turns into a psychological reckoning. Made in secret and smuggled to Cannes in 1997, Zhang Yuan's film is a landmark in queer Chinese cinema. It marked the first open depiction of homosexuality on the Chinese screen — daring, lyrical, and deeply political. - ACMI Melbourne. |
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