Life and death in shanghai7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Hsu pointed out that no mainland Chinese films would be participating in Cannes this year and cautioned that this could spell disaster for the future of the Chinese film industry unless Beijing relaxes its tight grip. ![]() The producer said that she would consider taking the “Life and Death in Shanghai” production to Taiwan if the authorities in Beijing continued to block the picture here. ![]() “They want us to shoot films about reform, but who wants to go see films about that?” “The Chinese government doesn’t care what place Chinese films have in the outside world,” Hsu said. The screenplay for the Madame Mao picture is being done by Lilian Lee, who also wrote the novel “Farewell My Concubine.” Hsu obtained the film rights to “Life and Death in Shanghai” in the early 1990s, and has already gone through nine script revisions. Hsu, who will be given a prize as an outstanding producer at the upcoming Cannes festival, said that the sensitive nature of the films is making it difficult to obtain a greenlight from the Chinese government. “They still see it as a fresh scab, and are afraid of opening the wound again”. “They need to deal with the Cultural Revolution in order to move forward,” she said. ![]()
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