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Updated: 2005-09-29 09:04
The Promise, Perhaps Love and the Wayward Cloud to make Oscar bid

自从《卧虎藏龙》之后,“奥斯卡最佳外语片”突然成了国人心中可望而又可及的梦想,华语片对其趋之若鹜。今年选送的华语片终于在昨日全部尘埃落定,《无极》代表中国内地报名参加,中国香港地区选送的片子是《如果·爱》,而中国台湾地区则宣布由《天边一朵云》出征奥斯卡。

 

The Promise, Perhaps Love and the Wayward Cloud to make Oscar bid

Chen Kaige's mega budget fantasy epic The Promise , Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love and Tsai Ming-Liang's erotic musical The Wayward Cloud will represent China to bid for the Best Foreign Language Film at upcoming Oscar.

The Promise won the privilege by beating such films like the highly appraised Kekexili, Mountain Patrol, Cannes winner Shanghai Dreams, Silver Berlin Bear winner Peacock and Letters from an Unknown Woman.    

In Hong Kong, Perhaps Love is favored over Jackie Chan's latest action The Myth and Stanley Kwan's Everlasting Regret, and in Taiwan, The Wayward Cloud wins without competitors.   

The Weinstein Company has acquired the North American, English, Australian and South African rights to The Promise along with IDG New Media Fund. However, it is unknown whether the Weinstein brothers will support its Oscar quest . Three years ago, when Zhang Yimou's Hero was making the Oscar bid, MiramAxe, under the Weinstein brothers' control back them, did absolutely nothing even thought the studio had already acquired the rights to the film for major English speaking countries several months before.

(CRI)

 

Vocabulary:
 

quest : the act of searching for something(寻求)

 

 
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