Spring Fever

Spring Fever (Chinese: 春风沉醉的晚上; literally "A Night Deeply Drunk on the Spring Breeze") is a 2009 Chinese film directed by Lou Ye. The production of the film is in defiance of a five-year ban on filmmaking imposed by China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) for his previous film, Summer Palace. The film was reportedly surreptitiously shot in the city of Nanjing. It is described to be about a young threesome overcome with... more

Spring Fever (Chinese: 春风沉醉的晚上; literally "A Night Deeply Drunk on the Spring Breeze") is a 2009 Chinese film directed by Lou Ye. The production of the film is in defiance of a five-year ban on filmmaking imposed by China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) for his previous film, Summer Palace. The film was reportedly surreptitiously shot in the city of Nanjing. It is described to be about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings. In April 2009, it was announced that Spring Fever was to be shown in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Little else was known about the film at the time, except that Lou was in the process of editing the film in Paris. Like Summer Palace, Spring Fever was to be screened without government approval. By the time of the film's premiere at the Cannes Festival on May 13, 2009, it was known that Lou had circumvented the five-year ban imposed upon him after Summer Palace by having Spring Fever registered as a Hong Kong... less