
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Regarded as the finest work from the first great era of Chinese filmmaking Fei Mu&s quiet piercingly poignant study of adulterous desire & guilt-ridden despair is a remarkable rediscovery often compared to David Lean&s Brief Encounter (1945) After eight years of marriage to Liyan -once rich but now a shadow of his former self following a long ruinous war
- Yuwen does little except deliver his daily medication A surprise visit from Liyan&s friend Zhang re-energises the household but also stirs up dangerously suppressed longings & resentments Director Feu Mu&s deft use of locations dissolves & camera movements makes for a fraught febrile mood of hesitant passion entrapment & ennui Cinematically & psychologically sophisticated Spring in a Small Town has been restored by the China Film Archive & is accompanied here by a number of rare & fascinating films from the BFI National Archive