Weekend Highlights for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival continues at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas this weekend. Highlights from today’s and Sunday’s program follow.
TODAY
‘Rouge’
Hong Kong, 1988, 99 minutes 8:40 p.m. Stanley Kwan’s sophisticated ghost story begins with perfumed scenes of 1936 passion between a performer-courtesan and her wealthy lover. Then we’re in the present as the courtesan’s ghost wanders through cold, neon-lit streets in search of her lover--who has yet to show in the afterlife. Kwan (“Love Unto Waste”) manipulates the dialectics of past and present, modernity and tradition, love and death obviously, but with irony and intelligence; the climax is a stunner. RECOMMENDED.
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