Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 266: Sat Sep 28

Green Snake (Hark, 1993): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.20pm


This presentation, which also screens on September 12th, is part of the Maggie Cheung season at BFI Southbank is an opportunity to catch the big-screen outing of this rarely shown, colourful, sensuous fairytale.

BFI introduction:
In what is probably Maggie Cheung’s most intriguing and wild film, she plays Green Snake, a demon spirit who has been training to take the form of a human woman. However, once she walks the earth, her accompanying sister spirit White Snake falls in love with a man. Ridiculously fun, the film gives Cheung a fabulous role, which finds her slithering, scathing and seducing with no small amount of allure.

Here
(and above) is the trailer.

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