Gong Li, probably the best known actress around the globe as a typical Chinese image, first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.
She narrated “Beijing” (2008), an audio walking tour by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk, which won an Audie Award for best Original Work (2009).
ABOUT GONG LI
An incarnation of modern Chinese beauty, Gong Li has won international acclaim for her acting talent. She has been a spokesperson for L’Oreal Paris products in Asia since 1996 and through the world.
Born in Shenyang in Northern China, Gong Li met the film director Zhang Yimou, while still a student at the Central Drama Academy in Beijing, from which she graduated in 1989. She was chosen as the female lead in RED SORGHUM. This magnificent movie garnered the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and brought Gong Li instant public recognition. Playing alternately peasant women, spiritual courtesans, submissive wives and dance hall singers in the films by Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, Gong Li accumulated success and film awards, including To LIVE, THE STORY OF QIU JU (the Venice Film Festival‘s Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1992) and FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (1993 Palme d’Or in Cannes).
ABOUT THE STORY: MEMORIES OF A FALLEN LOVE
At the Central Academy of Drama, long ago in Beijing, a young girl and her classmate performed “Love in a Fallen City”, a tragic tale about a couple whose fate is connected by war. Now as a grown woman and successfull actress, Gong Li returns to tell us of a time in history, when she and her young companion were unable to separate their charaters destinies from their own. Through a nostalgic journey that blurs the line between fact and fiction, the winding lanes of an ancient city becomes the stage for her life story.
Characters from Beijing’s past return to tell stories somewhere between the truth and the imagined.
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She narrated “Beijing” (2008), an audio walking tour by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk, which won an Audie Award for best Original Work (2009).
ABOUT GONG LI
An incarnation of modern Chinese beauty, Gong Li has won international acclaim for her acting talent. She has been a spokesperson for L’Oreal Paris products in Asia since 1996 and through the world.
Born in Shenyang in Northern China, Gong Li met the film director Zhang Yimou, while still a student at the Central Drama Academy in Beijing, from which she graduated in 1989. She was chosen as the female lead in RED SORGHUM. This magnificent movie garnered the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and brought Gong Li instant public recognition. Playing alternately peasant women, spiritual courtesans, submissive wives and dance hall singers in the films by Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, Gong Li accumulated success and film awards, including To LIVE, THE STORY OF QIU JU (the Venice Film Festival‘s Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1992) and FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (1993 Palme d’Or in Cannes).
ABOUT THE STORY: MEMORIES OF A FALLEN LOVE
At the Central Academy of Drama, long ago in Beijing, a young girl and her classmate performed “Love in a Fallen City”, a tragic tale about a couple whose fate is connected by war. Now as a grown woman and successfull actress, Gong Li returns to tell us of a time in history, when she and her young companion were unable to separate their charaters destinies from their own. Through a nostalgic journey that blurs the line between fact and fiction, the winding lanes of an ancient city becomes the stage for her life story.
Characters from Beijing’s past return to tell stories somewhere between the truth and the imagined.
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