Chinese
actor-turned-director Jiang Wen unveiled three posters for his new
film The Sun Also Rises on Thursday.
Chinese actor-turned-director Jiang Wen unveiled three posters
for his new film The Sun Also Rises on Thursday, the day
the film was announced as one of the contenders in the Venice Film
Festival.
The posters, in English and Chinese, will be displayed during
the festival which runs from August 29 to September 8.
Jiang Wen is one of the most exciting and important figures in
Chinese film today, and has been dubbed the dominant male performer
of his generation on the mainland.
His directorial works have won many prizes, such as the Grand
Prix at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
This year will be the second time Jiang visits the Venice
festival as a director. In 1994, he took his directorial debut,
In the Heat of the Sun, and won the best actor prize for
its young lead, Xia Yu.
Jiang's new film has been slated for public release in China on
September 21.
(CRI.cn July 27, 2007)
