AFS Essential Cinema: LOST IN BEIJING April 8, 2008

The Austin Film Society presents its latest Essential Cinema Series "Ascending Dragon: Films of Greater China."

LOST IN BEIJING, directed by Li Yu, marks the second film of this series. Immigrants from northeastern China, An-kun (a window washer) and his pretty young wife Ping-guo (a masseuse) earn enough money to get by. When Ping-guo’s boss makes unwanted sexual advances, she and her husband concoct a plan to blackmail him with threats of accusing him of rape. The boss’s wife has her own sexual interest in An-kun and sexual revenge begins to complicate the matter. This intriguing new film shows a dramatically changing Beijing and major shifts in the socio-sexual-economic traditions, which would send Mao into a tirade.

FREE for AFS members / $4 for the general public

Official Website: http://austinfilm.org/film/lost_in_beijing_ping_guo