Changes to Chengdu

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-08-27 10:28

Chengdu, I Love You (Chengdu, Wo Ai Ni), originally a three-part collaboration, has been split into two films, and one of them will close the 66th Venice Film Festival.

Chengdu was supposed to be a three-part flick, directed by rock icon Cui Jian, Hong Kong director Fruit Chan and South Korean director Hur Jin-ho, each running for 30 minutes.

Liu Qun, media manager of the film's producing company Zonbo Media, confirmed that Hur's part is now an independent feature film, while Cui and Chan's part make up the other, which will close the Venice Festival, running from Sept 2-12. Hur's film tells a love story between an interpreter who loses her husband in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and her Korean college classmate. It will premiere in October.

Cui's part is about a drummer and a young kungfu artist set in 2029, while Chan captures the city as seen in 1976.