Spring Fever

Shot semi-clandestinely in Nanjing, central China, Lou Ye’s latest film is a steamy, evocative look at the persistence of desire.

A thorn in the side of China’s film censors, director Lou Ye got around the five-year ban on him by registering Spring Fever as a Hong Kong-French coproduction. As in his earlier work Summer Palace, Lou is remarkably graphic in depicting his character’s romantic entanglements. Here he focuses on a married man having a gay affair that his wife threatens to expose. The film also features an exceptional score by Iranian composer Peyman Yazdanian. (116 mins., 35mm)

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