China criticizes filmmaker for Cannes entry without approval

Posted on May 20, 2006 9:44 PM | | Comments (0)

Agence France Presse | Yahoo
May 19, 2006

China's film censor criticized the director of a movie set around the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests for showing it at the Cannes Film Festival without government approval.

"Summer Palace", directed by 40-year-old Lou Ye, is a love story that follows the open and sexually free lives of Chinese students before the protests and how they deal with the bloody quelling of the demonstrations and its aftermath.

"This amounts to participation in a competition against regulations," Zhang Hongwei, deputy director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television's film bureau, told AFP.

"The film has not passed screening from the administration. This violates our country's regulations on films."

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