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Gong Li gets a kick out of playing evil in The Monkey King 2: Gong Li’s face, cold and delicate as a jade carving, lights up with a tiny smile when a reporter describes her latest performance in The Monkey King 2 as “superb”.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Montreal fest dawns an age of ‘Innocence’: Seasoned Australian helmer Paul Cox and hot Chinese thesp Gong Li were big winners at the 24th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival, which wrapped Monday.
FILM REVIEW; Torn Between a Dreamy Idealist and a Veterinarian: This vehicle for the Chinese beauty Gong Li finds her approaching 40 but still playing a young, innocent peasant woman: Zhou Yu, a painter in a ceramics factory who twice a week takes a crowded train from her home in Sanming, an industrial center in the northwest, to the rural village of Chongyang. She makes the punishing journey to see her lover, Chen Ching (Tony Leung Ka Fai), a shy, sensitive poet who lives in reclusion in a dusty library. Built out of bits and pieces of successful Chinese films of the recent past, "Zhou Yu’s Train" comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies — or at worst, a commercial Frankenstein’s monster, sewn together to fill a perceived gap in the market. The Chinese cinema has since gone on to more challenging, socially-engaged subjects (as in Zhang Ke Jia’s amazing "Platform"); perhaps it’s time for Ms. Li to do the same. — Dave Kehr
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: actress is one of the most famous actresses of china’s Fifth Generation cinema . she starred in three of the four academy award-nominated Chinese-language films . Gong was born in shenyang, Gong won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the Zhang-directed The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) she also starred in the Chen Kaige-directed Oscar-nominated Farewell Gong was appointed a Commander (Commandeur) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France in 2010 . she grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong she was discovered by Zhang Yimou, who chose her for the lead role in his first film as a director . she starred in Ju Dou in 1990; her performance in the Oscar-nominated Raise the Red Lan she was awarded the Berlinale Camera at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival . premiere magazine ranked her performance in farewell my concubine as the 89th greatest performance of all time . she also worked with despite her popularity, she avoided Hollywood for years, due to a lack of confidence in speaking English . in the early 2000s, she also starred in two films directed by Wong Kar-wai, 2046 and she made her English speaking debut in 2005 when she starred as Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha . her other english-language roles to date include Miami Vice in 2006 and Hannibal Rising time named her performance as the 7th greatest performance of the year . she narrated Beijing (2008), an audio walking tour by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk . in 2014, she was the president of the jury the pair worked on six films between 1987 and 1995, before ending their relationship . they reunited in 2006 for the film Curse of the Golden Flower and in 2014 on Coming Home . on 28 June 2010, Gong’s agent confirmed that Gong Li and her husband Ooi had divorced . in 2019, Gong married French musician Jean-Michel Jarre.
