According to gay article report, the Chinese movie "Spring Fever" together with an Iranian movie are causing political controversies at the 62nd Cannes film festival on Thursday.Award-winning Lou Ye is among some of the world's 20 hottest directors competing for the top prize from the globe's leading movie showcase. His "Spring Fever" is a two-hour tale of passion and seduction in twosomes and threesomes with lengthy graphic scenes of gay sex that he shot in just two months in Nanjing city with a hand-held camera, defying a ban on film-making.
As reported in gay article, the banned Chinese movie "Spring Fever" had to be made in secret not only because of the taboo subject matter, but also because in 2006 Lou Ye has been banned from making films for a five-year span, following his last movie, "Summer Palace," which is set in 1989 and concerns the Tiananmen Square demonstrations. His past controversial movies include "Purple Butterfly" and "Suzhou River".
As reported in gay article, the banned Chinese movie "Spring Fever" had to be made in secret not only because of the taboo subject matter, but also because in 2006 Lou Ye has been banned from making films for a five-year span, following his last movie, "Summer Palace," which is set in 1989 and concerns the Tiananmen Square demonstrations. His past controversial movies include "Purple Butterfly" and "Suzhou River".
The movie "Spring Fever" is set in Nanjing during the springtime. Wang Ping's wife suspects him of adultery. She hires Luo Haitao to spy on him and discovers that her husband's lover is a man called Jiang Cheng. It is with this man that Luo Haitao and his girlfriend, Li Jing form a torrid love triangle. For all three, it's the beginning of asphyxiating, sultry nights of physical abandon that exalt the senses. It is a sulfurous journey into the confines of jealousy and obsessive love.
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