Topic: NEWS english - on August 11, 2002 at 1:47:38 AM CEST
China's First Lesbian Film Quietly Tests Limits
BEIJING (Reuters) - Li Yu, director of China's first lesbian feature film, never told her male actors their on-screen blind dates weren't interested.
By the time the amateur beaux found out the leading ladies were gay, Li's cameras were already rolling.
"It was an experiment, an exploration, to see how people in society really view lesbians," said the rookie director of "Fish and Elephant," a prize winner at the Berlin Film Festival.
Shot on 16 mm film in a shabby pocket of Beijing, the movie stars real-life lesbians nagged by the daily pressures of their Confucian, marriage-minded society: a matchmaking mother, a deadbeat husband and a bevy of desperate, single men.
A murderous ex-girlfriend on the run from police only complicates matters.
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