Flowers of Shanghai at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on Thursday 30 January. A series of vignettes exploring the lives of "flower girls" (high class prostitutes from elegant brothels) in 1884 Shanghai. Part of EAFFI Discoveries.
East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) is delighted to present FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI in a beautiful digital 4K restoration for the Lunar New Year 2025: Year of the Snake.
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is a hypnotic human comedy based on Han Ziyun’s 1894 masterpiece novel, Hai Shang Hua. Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (EAFFI guest of honour, 2017) and scripted by Chu Tien-Wen, it depicts life in the elegant brothels or ‘flower houses’ found in Shanghai’s foreign concessions in the late Qing dynasty in 1884, where prominent figures were received by ‘flower girls’, in an enclosed world with its own codes, money negotiations, romantic intrigues, and tensions.
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