Farewell My Concubine

by Belinda Low

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18.000 x 24.000 x 0.250 inches

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Farewell My Concubine

Artist

Belinda Low

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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This is my second in a series of opera singers. I am takened by their beautiful makeup and vibrant colors in their costumes. I was fascinated by these as a child even tho I didn't understand what they were singing. Those days, we could just pick up a chair and sit out in the open field to watch. The streets were lively with such wayangs (operas) then. A friend of mine suggested naming this Farewell to My Concubine after the movie which starred Leslie Cheung. This movie was the Winner of Palme D'or and nominated or 2 Academy Awards. He was a handsome actor and when he was dressed in drag, he simply looked gorgeously beautiful as an opera singer. Below extracted from Wikipaedia:
An adaptation of the novel by Lilian Lee, the film is set in a politically tumultuous China during the 20th century, from the early days of the Republic of China to the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. It chronicles the troubled relationships between two Peking opera actors and lifelong friends Cheng Dieyi (Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang), and Xiaolou's wife Juxian (Gong). The movie is about confusion of identity and blurred lines between real life and the stage, portrayed by the revered opera actor Dieyi, whose unrequited love for Xiaolou persists through the movie. Commentators also noted themes of political and societal disturbances in 20th-century China, which is typical of the Chinese Fifth Generation cinema.

Farewell My Concubine premiered on January 1, 1993, in Hong Kong. Upon release, the film received generally positive reviews from contemporary critics and won the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival,[note 1] becoming the first Chinese-language film to achieve the honour. It further won accolades including a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language, and received two nominations at the 66th Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Foreign Language Film. The film was initially removed from theatres and banned in Mainland China—for less than two months—because of its depiction of homosexuality and suicide.[2][3] Farewell My Concubine is considered one of the landmark films of the Fifth Generation movement that brought Chinese film directors to world attention.[4][5]

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