March 30: The Flowers of War (China, 2011, subtitled)

Sponsor: Chinese Club at UNCC

Introduction by Tianran Savaiinaea, Visiting Lecturer of Chinese & Coordinator of the Chinese Program at UNCC.

The Flowers of War (2011, subtitled): A Westerner finds refuge with a group of Chinese students and prostitutes in a church during Japan’s rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Review: “Heralded as a new dawn in China-Hollywood co-operation, this ambitious war film from Zhang Yimou is an attempt to turn the revolting aftermath of the 1937 Japanese assult on Nanjing into a globally friendly, putatively inspiring epic that also aims to underscore the US and China’s geopolitical mutual respect.”-Andrew Pulver, Berlin Film Festival