From Wikipedia:
Summer Palace (Traditional Chinese: îUºÍ@; Simplified Chinese:
ÒúÍÔ°; Hanyu Pinyin: Y¨ªh¨¦ Yu¨¢n), is a 2006 film and the fourth
feature film by director Lou Ye.
The film deals with young student who leaves her small hometown to
study at Beijing University. There she meets a fellow student and
begins an intense romantic relationship in the backdrop of the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
The film was in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival but
failed to garner any awards. Though Summer Palace was the only
Asian film in competition for the Palme d'Or, Lou and his producers
had not received approval from Chinese censors, thus instigating
their official censure by the Chinese government.[1] Lou, however,
has stated that the reason for the ban was for "technical reasons"
in that the film was not up to the Beijing Film Bureau's standards
for picture and sound quality.[2]
