[EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Peranson reviewed “Suzhou River” for indieWIRE earlier this year. The film opens Wednesday, November 8th at New York’s Film Forum.] Named after the murky, polluted river that ...

Metaphoric tale about the obsessive love between a videographer and the mysterious woman who makes her living as a "mermaid" at a sleazy club. Zhou Xun, Jia Hongshen. Directed by Lou Ye. Lou Ye's edgy ...

Suzhou River and its little mermaid, Zhou Xun. Zhou Xun in the dual role of Moudan and Meimei in Suzhou River. Along the filthy spill that is the Suzhou River, Shanghai’s main arterial waterway, a ...

(indieWIRE/ 03.08.01) — Like last year’s arthouse sleeper, Lou Ye‘s “Suzhou River,” Wang Xiaoshuai‘s “So Close to Paradise,” which opens Friday at The Screening Room in New York, is set along seedy ...

(star)(star) 1/2 There’s more than a dollop of Jean-Luc Godard in “Suzhou River,” a Chinese-German co-production that shuffles and deals the eternal themes of love, loss and obsession. Set along the ...

Writer-director Lou Ye, a figurehead in the Chinese “Sixth Generation” of filmmakers (shorthand definition: post-Zhang Yimou) disguises the tone-poem intentions of this moody movie behind a facade of ...

A complex and beguiling clutter of movie-movie reference points and vibrant real-world impressions of Shanghai, Lou Ye's Suzhou River retools Hitchcock's Vertigo to lend a splash of colorful fantasy ...

Alfred Hitchcock’s ”Vertigo” remains the most hypnotic movie ever made about romantic loss, urban car travel, and the not unprofound question, When a woman goes blond, is she changing her look — or ...