This screening is a collaboration between CinemAsia and VU Pride - the network for and by LGBTQIA+ students and employees of the VU University Amsterdam.
An essential work of Hong Kong queer cinema, Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu is a poignant portrait of a relationship filled with passion and deception, yearning and regret. Meant merely as a diversion from his countless one-night stands, Handong’s sexual relationship with Lan Yu, a young college boy, turns unexpectedly into something deeper. Undeterred by Handong’s promiscuity and impulsive marriage, Lan Yu’s devotion to Handong cannot escape its unforgiving fate.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary with a brand new 4K restoration, Kwan’s adaptation of an anonymous Chinese internet novel is a tale of heartbreak and loss of the love that might have been.
