Ye Lou
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Ye Lou was born (in 1965) and grew up in Shanghai, a city he would film
beautifully in his Suzhou River (2000)
(Suzhou River). After studying cinema at the Beijing Film Academy, the
gifted young man debuted in the film career as an assistant director, a
producer and a short subjects director. His second feature
Weekend Lover (1993) (Weekend
Lover) was both a public and critical success, crowned by the
Fassbinder Prize. In 1997, he accepted to produce "Super City", a TV
series for which he hired ten of the most promising names of the
sixth-generation-directors. Three years later, he came to international
prominence with Suzhou River (2000)
(Suzhou River), an ambitious artistic meditation on love and the status
of woman in the rapidly changing Chinese society as well as a moving
ode to his home town Shanghai.
