"Pavilion of Women," the first Hollywood film by a Chinese
producer, will make its debut to audience worldwide on April 20, in
both English and Chinese versions, according to the Moonstone
International Entertainment Co., Ltd. distributor for the film in
China.
"Pavilion of Woman" was co-invested by Universal Pictures and
Silver Dream Production, and jointly screened with Beijing Film
Studio.
Luo Yan, an American Chinese artist, produced, wrote and starred in
the film. It's the first time that an overseas Chinese artist has
taken up these three roles simultaneously in a Hollywood film and
written a China-based script in English.
Luo said that she has recomposed the story on a novel, of the same
title, by famous American writer Pearl S. Buck, a laureate of both
the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for
Literature.
The film, taking its setting in an east China small town in the
1930s, tells a love story between Madame Wu from a rich family and
an American priest, Andrew.
Experts here expressed their hope that the film could help Chinese
film artists compete in the international arena.
(People's Daily 03/31/2001)