The Lovers
Life is fleeting as a butterfly.
Directed by Tsui Hark
Produced by Film Workshop, Paragon Films
A delicate period romance about forbidden love across class lines, told with lyrical melancholy and the bittersweet awareness that beauty and connection are fleeting.
In 337 A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but handsome and industrious young man.
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