Suzhou River
- Thu, May 28
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Lou Ye Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 2000 Language: Chinese
Starring: Hua Zhongkai, Jia Hongsheng, Nai An, Yao Anlian, Zhou Xun
Our Staff Pick for May 2026 comes courtesy of The Frida’s Director of Memberships & Exhibition Operations, Bobby, as he has chosen Lou Ye’s 2000 romantic drama Suzhou River!
Along the banks of the Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghai, Marda (Jia Hongshen) falls in love with a dramatically beautiful young woman named Moudan (Zhou Xun). When he tries to kidnap her in order to demand ransom money from her rich father, she escapes him, jumping in to the river and disappearing forever. Marda serves a three-year jail sentence for his attempted crime. Upon his release, he meets a woman that looks exactly like Moudan, named MeiMei (also played by Zhou Xun).
An exciting, action-filled mystery suspense movie, Suzhou River shares many thematic and stylistic elements with Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and demands to be seen on the big screen in this brand new 4K restoration via our friends at Strand Releasing.