By Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Strand Releasing has scooped all U.S. rights to Lou Ye’s Second World War-set spy thriller “Saturday Fiction” from Wild Bunch.
The film world premiered in competition at Venice last year and played at the New York Film Festival. “Saturday Fiction” stars Gong Li as a famous actress who has returned to Japanese-occupied Shanghai to act in a play directed by and co-starring her old flame.
But it turns out she has ulterior motives, functioning as a double agent gathering intelligence for the Allies leading up to Japan’s upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor.
Written by Ma Yingli (“Summer Palace”), the lavishly shot black-and-white movie also stars Mark Chao, Pascal Greggory and Tom Wlaschiha.
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