Chinese Director Takes New Film To Cannes, Risks Trouble With Government

Chinese director Lou Ye will premiere his film Spring Fever at the Cannes Film Festival this year even though in 2006 the PRC prohibited him from making movies for five years. His film Summer Palace, about the Tiananmen Square uprising roused the ire of the Chinese government and caused the prohibition. Read more in a BBC story. Here’s a story about the director’s problems with Summer Palace.