Year
2000
Language
Mandarin spoken, English subtitles
Director
Ang Lee
Duration
120 min
Ang Lee’s enchanting martial arts film is a compelling story about love, honor, and desire, wrapped in a visually breathtaking world full of movement and stillness.
Two warriors and a young woman attempt to fight their way free from the expectations that define their lives. What follows is a story full of inner struggle and spectacular confrontations. At the same time, the film excels in its elegant cinematography: floating fights through bamboo forests, graceful choreography, and carefully composed images. The combination of action and poetry creates a film experience that is both thrilling and moving.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a masterclass in graceful filmmaking which makes everything look effortless: The camera glides smoothly; the characters seem weightless and their movements fluid. Ang Lee’s wuxia classic is a prime example of sheer kinetic beauty.
8:00 PM - 10:20 PM
€ 13.00
Camera 5
During the Cinematic Beauty film programme, we take you on a journey through seven beautiful classics from around the world, each of which sheds a different light on beauty. What is the purpose of beauty in these films, and how does it contribute to what a film wants to tell us? In collaboration with a team of film scholars from the University of Groningen, Cinematic Beauty seeks answers to these questions.
