This event is in the past.It took place on August 9, 2026 at Film Forum.
Drama Film🎬"A MASTERPIECE... THE GREATEST HONG KONG FILM I'VE SEEN" (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
💔"tender, vivid, and almost overwhelmingly moving" (Time Out)
🍿Catch a silent film with live piano if you can
Maggie Cheung is luminous as Ruan Lingyu, the "Greta Garbo of China," in this lush, self-aware biopic that blurs fiction, archival footage, and metatextual reflection into something hypnotic and heartbreaking. A defining film of Hong Kong's '90s golden age, finally restored in 4K.
Luminous Maggie Cheung performance
Tragic 1930s screen goddess
Blends fiction and documentary
Lush period melodrama
Drama Film🎬"A MASTERPIECE... THE GREATEST HONG KONG FILM I'VE SEEN" (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
💔"tender, vivid, and almost overwhelmingly moving" (Time Out)
🍿Catch a silent film with live piano if you can
Maggie Cheung is luminous as Ruan Lingyu, the "Greta Garbo of China," in this lush, self-aware biopic that blurs fiction, archival footage, and metatextual reflection into something hypnotic and heartbreaking. A defining film of Hong Kong's '90s golden age, finally restored in 4K.
Luminous Maggie Cheung performance
Tragic 1930s screen goddess
Blends fiction and documentary
Lush period melodrama