- Born
- Birth nameLou Ye
- 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Guy Bellinger
- SpouseYingli Ma(? - present)
- Banned by the Chinese government from making movies for two years in 2000 for making Suzhou River without an approval from the authority.
- Founded with Nai An the film company Dream Factory.
- Attended the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
- Lou and his longtime collaborator, Nai An, were banned from the Chinese industry more than five years over his 2006 film "Summer Palace," which depicted the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival without the permission of Chinese government censors.
- I'm just a director. I'm not a politician. I don't want to get into boring politics in my films.
- Many Chinese directors practice self-censorship because of the tight controls. But I think this is fatal. Directors must be free. So I say to everyone when we are working, 'Let's forget censorship.' That's why there are always so many troubles after the film [Summer Palace] is complete. But while I am shooting, I am very happy.
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