Roxie Theater: Spring Fever

“Loosely inspired by the risqué writings of early-20th-century maverick Yu Dafu… We are introduced to two men, travel agent Jiang Cheng (Qin Hao) and bookish Wang Ping (Wu Wei), embroiled in a passionate love affair…Shot surreptitiously in the eastern city of Nanjing with available light, SPRING FEVER is a deliriously erotic and anguished melodrama, where frenetic street scenes alternate with murky interiors in a dreamlike weave of events and locations, all bathed in cool dark tones. As always with the libidinal undercurrents of Lou’s films, sexuality is the measure and reflection of individual freedom, the lovers’ existential malaise representing social life under severe constraints.” – Damon Smith, Filmmaker Magazine

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon