[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 ...

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 ...

Suzhou River, a first feature playing this week at Facets Multimedia Center, is an affecting, romantic, and fascinating mood piece from China. It’s been getting a bit of flak from critics who call it ...

The 2016 presidential election was approaching, and the climate of our country had gone from bitter to acidic. Having long abandoned social media, I periodically peered over my husband’s shoulder to ...

On August 1 in Shanghai, college students took part in a “Love China” Open Yachting Tournament. The students who were from Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan had come together to sail on the Suzhou River.

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 ...

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 ...