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The Grandmaster: Tony Leung
April 29 - May 7
Reuniting the In the Mood for Love pair in a more openly tragic key, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung bring aching romantic force to Zhang Yimou’s lush wuxia.
Zhang Yimou’s lush wuxia unfurls an assassination plot through a Rashomon-like chain of flashbacks. In the Warring States period, Nameless (Jet Li) claims he has killed three rebels—Sky (Donnie Yen), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), and Broken Sword (Tony Leung)—which earns him an audience with the King of Qin. Each retelling shifts motive and allegiance, from a rain-drenched duel scored to a zither, to a crimson-soaked calligraphy school pierced by volleys of arrows. Reuniting the In the Mood for Love pair in a more openly tragic key, Leung and Cheung bring aching romantic force to Yimou’s hyper-stylized parable about the cost of peace under authoritarian rule, as Ching Siu-tung’s wire-fu choreography and Christopher Doyle’s cinematography turn each duel into a precise, operatic set piece. 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive.
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