We are pleased to continue supporting programmes running at The Hippodrome, Scotland’s number one ‘destination’ cinema and winner of Best Cinema Experience in Scotland 2019.
Anna May Wong gives one of the most compelling screen performances of her career as a woman tormented by unrequited love.
Song (named in a nod to Anna May Wong’s birth-name, Wong Liu Tsong) is washed-up on the shore of Constantinople where she is rescued by artist-in-exile John. With nowhere else to turn, Song persuades her saviour to take her in, quickly making herself indispensable by joining John’s knife-throwing act. Despite Song’s tender care and loyalty, John remains devoted to an old flame: a self-centred ballerina who broke his heart years before.
Anna May Wong quit Hollywood, and its relentlessly stereotyped casting in secondary roles, to work on this film in the thriving German cinema industry. While once again cast as the exotic ‘other’, she is the undisputed star of this picture, bringing extraordinary depth and dignity to a role written expressly for her.
Screening material courtesy of Filmmuseum Düsseldorf.
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Screening material courtesy of Filmmuseum Düsseldorf.