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Age of Bloom
CHINA · 2001

Age of Bloom

Wong Kar-Wai
Chinese cinema history film restoration vintage footage lost films cultural preservation
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Synopsis

A montage of scenes from vintage Chinese films—most of which were considered lost until some nitrate prints were discovered in a California warehouse in the 1990s—set to the song "Hua yang de nian hua" ("Age of Bloom") by Zhou Xuan.

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