Ye Lou

'Ye Lou' (qv) was born (in 1965) and grew up in Shanghai, a city he would film beautifully in his _Suzhou River (2000)_ (qv) (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 _Zhou mo qing ren (1993)_ (qv) (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)_ (qv) (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.::Guy Bellinger