Movie "Love Song 1980" will be showcased at 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival

MOVIE LOVE SONG 1980 - 恋曲1980

Director: MEI Feng | Screenplay: MEI Feng| CAST: LI Xian, Jessie LI

World Premiere at 33rd TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 10.31.2020 - 11.09.2020

The screening schedule will be announced at 3:00 pm, Tuesday, October 6 (Japan Time) Ticket Sales start from 16:00 on Oct. 24 Sat.

Love Song 1980 is about youth, love, desire, life and death. It is also about the 80s, an era lovingly known as a spiritual utopia and loaded with imaginative nostalgia. Recognized as an award-winning screenwriter for many Lou Ye’s works, the director Mei Feng intends to seek and create a new narrative of this enticing era in his second directorial feature.

Zhengwen, a college student who exudes a healthy glow of natural and youthful masculinity, vacillates between two different women, one is amicable and mystic, the other is caring and passionate. The ivory tower is not only an exclusive place for acquiring knowledge, but a space where the protagonists get their respective education about love and life.

Using lots of close-up shots and the 4:3 frame, Love Song 1980 provides a subjective yet immersive reminiscence of a youthful past.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Mei Feng is an associate professor at the Beijing Film Academy. He received an MA in Film Studies from the Beijing Film Academy in 1998. He is Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye’s long-time collaborator. Mei Feng is the screenwriter for Spring Fever (2009), which won the Best Screenplay at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He also co-wrote Summer Palace (2006) and Mystery (2012). His directorial debut feature Mr. No Problem received the awards of the Best Artistic Contribution at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival, the Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 53rd Taipei Golden Horse Awards.

—- Cre: Tokyo International Film Festival & Parallax Films

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