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Banquet of the Concubine
201212 min 50 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Hefang Wei
Production: René Chénier (National Film Board of Canada)Pascal Le Nôtre (Foliascope)Emmanuel BernardJulie Roy (National Film Board of Canada)Nicolas Burlet (Nadasdy Film)
Script: Hefang Wei
Produced by Folimage Studio - Foliascope in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada and Nadasdy Film with the participation of Arte France, La Région Rhône Alpes, Centre Images and the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée.
In the Imperial City in the year 746, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li gives a banquet in honour of his favourite concubine, Yang. The guests pay their respects to the great beauty. A magnificent feast is served. The incense burns down, but the celebration is still missing two essential elements: the delicious lychees which the concubine craves and the Emperor himself.
As Yang’s impatience grows, she drinks more and more. Where can he be? With Sun, the latest concubine! Imagining their sensuous intertwining, Yang is consumed with jealousy and behaves scandalously before the assembled dignitaries. Her frustrated desire and the pain she feels at the Emperor’s infidelity harden her heart. She is unappeasable. But it is another who will taste the unjust deserts.
Delicately flirting with eroticism, the animated film The Banquet of the Concubine, by young Chinese director Hefang Wei, recounts one of the most famous love stories of Imperial China. In this tale of bitter jealousy, nothing can sweeten the heart of an abandoned mistress, not even the luscious lychee.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional Life
- Women > Interpersonal Relationships
Credits
- director
- Hefang Wei
- screenplay
- Hefang Wei
- adaptation
- Claire Paoletti
- voice
- Xi Wang
- Bin Yin
- Ye Tian
- Dehui Zhang
- Shuyu Li
- Jie Xiong
- Zaoer Tu
- Yunyun Gu
- Zhuojun Zhao
- Shuxian Pan
- Ka Lun Cheung
- Lei Meng
- Gan Guo
- original music
- Normand Roger
- Denis Chartrand
- Pierre Yves Drapeau
- musician
- Liu Fang
- Yang Li
- Denis Chartrand
- music recording
- Pierre Yves Drapeau
- sound design
- Normand Roger
- Pierre Yves Drapeau
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- re-recording
- Jean Paul Vialard
- voice recording
- Loïc Moniotte
- voice logging
- Marie-Pierre Hauwelles
- post-synchro voice recording
- Loïc Burkhardt
- layout
- Hefang Wei
- Marc Robinet
- backgrounds
- Hefang Wei
- Emilie Mercier
- animator
- Marc Robinet
- Hefang Wei
- Laurent Repiton
- assistant animator
- Laurene Braibant
- Emmanuel Corrado
- intern
- Bernard Bui
- Nicolas Rolland
- Chun-Yi Huang
- Marion Delpech
- Valana Gauthier
- Morgane Fraschina
- Jeanne Boudraa
- Mélanie Robert
- Guillaume Arantes
- head colourist
- Maryse Tuzy
- opaquer
- Yasmina Bouachrine
- Myriam Gras
- Carole Guénault
- Frédérique Lecront
- Mylène Seignobos
- script person
- Flore Poinsard
- compositing
- Izu Troin
- editing
- Hervé Guichard
- online editing
- Denis Gathelier
- translation
- CNST
- subtitles
- CNST
- digital imaging specialist
- Pierre Plouffe
- technical coordinator
- Patrick Tallaron
- Julie Laperrière
- France Couture
- production assistant
- Solenne Blanc
- Corinne Destombes
- Patrice Faivre
- administrator
- Diane Régimbald
- distribution - marketing
- Dominique Templier
- Jeremy Mourlam
- Jenny Thibault
- line production
- Francine Langdeau
- executive producer
- René Chénier
- producer
- Pascal Le Nôtre
- Emmanuel Bernard
- Julie Roy
- co-producer
- Nicolas Burlet
Awards
- Animasian AwardReel Asian International Film Festival
- Animated Dreams Grand PrixBlack Nights Film Festival & Animated Dreams
- Golden Peg Bar- with a cash prize of 1000€ANIMANIMA
- Jury AwardMontreal World Film Festival