Chinese Movie Nights – Jasmine Women

ZHANG  Ziyi stars in three different roles in “Jasmine Women” which is “dedicated to all mothers”, as its opening credits assert. This period drama tells the story of three generations of women in a family who seemingly inherit a genetic ill-fate with men…

Jasmine Women  (2004)
13/06 (FR subtitles) & Tuesday 14/06 (EN subtitles)
18:30

Category : drama
Duration : 2h10min
Director : HOU Yong 侯咏
Starring: ZHANG Ziyi 章子怡,  Joan CHEN陈冲; JIANG Wen 姜文

Summary
In the 1930s, Mo (Zhang Ziyi), brought up by her single mother (Joan Chen), develops a romance with a studio manager (Jiang Wen) and is dumped after she gets pregnant. She blames her daughter Li for all her miseries. In the 1960s, Li can no longer put up with her mother Mo (Joan Chen) and marries a construction worker (Lu Yi). Being impotent, Li adopts a child from the orphan named Hua. In the 1980s, Li suspects that her husband has an incestuous affair with Hua. Her husband commits suicide and Li becomes schizophrenic. Hua’s marriage is no better than her mother’s or grandmother’s : her husband (Liu Ye) finds a mistress and she decides to divorce him although she has already conceived his child…          

The story of Jasmine Women is adapted from  SU Tong’s novel called 妇女生活 which means Women’s Lives, while the Chinese title of the movie 茉莉花开Mo li hua kai (Jasmine flower blossom) is based on a popular Chinese song Mo Li Hua (Jasmine) which was also an inspiration for the names of the three main characters : Mo, Li and Hua!

Trailer

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