Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Raise the Red Lantern tonight!

Tonight's movie is Raise the Red Lantern (China). Movie starts at 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Film will be shown in Room D. Light snacks provided. Free!

"This film is Yimou Zhang’s beautifully shot story of a young well-educated woman who must give up an independent future and become the wife of a wealthy landowner after her father dies. Songlian is the fourth wife of the powerful lord and the competition between the wives is tough. He must decide each night which house (and which wife) he will stay with and the red lantern burning in front of the house is the proof of his decision. As each wife schemes to make sure she has the lantern at her door, their plans spiral out of control."

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