2014 | Colour | 179′ | DCP Director: Ann Hui Screenwriter: Li Qiang Cinematographer: Wang Yu Cast: Tang Wei, Feng Shaofeng, Wang Zhiwen, Zhu Yawen, Huang Xuan In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles 2014 Best Director, Golden Horse Awards 2015 Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume & Makeup Design, Hong Kong Film Awards 2015 Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Asian Film Awards 2015 Best Original Screenplay, Golden Rooster Awards Post-screening talk in Cantonese Speaker: Dr Kwok Sze-wing (Associate Professor of Department of Chinese) Ann Hui is a Hong Kong director who embodies the spirit of the literati, her entire career devoted to the art of film and her own artistic pursuit. The Golden Era is the story of writer Xiao Hong, known fondly as one of the Four Gifted Female Literati of the Republican Era, who devotes her life to literature and her own artistic and personal pursuit during a historical time at once free and restricted, deprived and abundant, traumatic and rewarding. A Golden Era in many senses of the term. Xiao’s life is as short as it is eventful, by turns adventurous, agonizing, productive, individualistic and fueled by invigorating collective power. Her creative experience is spiced with love and heartbreak, as artistic expressions intertwine with emotional upheavals, all the while reacting to drastic changing times. The film also offers an intimate portrait of the literati culture of the 1920s through the 1940s, a fruitful period as writers exercise their artistry with patriotic fervor and humanistic passion, driven by the May Fourth spirit and responding to China’s national crisis. It is nostalgia for a bygone era, an era at once simple and complicated.

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