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Looking Back - The Cinematography of Raise the Red Lantern — Mike Best

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‘Raise the Red Lantern’, is a meticulously framed, exquisitely beautiful and extremely claustrophobic film to watch. With its blend of formal compositions, static camera angles and daring color palettes, auteur filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s exploration of female oppression is simultaneously tender and detached. Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà, 1991) is a film by director Zhang Yimou set in 1920’s Northern China. Two separate cinematographers, Lun Yang and Zhao Fei, were given credit on the picture. It was nominated for an academy award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film follows the plight of a 19 year old student Songlian (Gong Li) who, upon the death of her father and subsequent loss of financial means is forced to accept an arranged marriage. In spite of warnings from her mother that wedding a wealthy man will only lead her to become a concubine, Songlian opts to marry into the wealthy Chen family and thereby seals her fate as a prisoner in a gilded cage. She moves

Looking Back - The Cinematography of Raise the Red Lantern cinematography 25 Apr Written By ‘Raise the Red Lantern’, is a meticulously framed, exquisitely beautiful and extremely claustrophobic film to watch. With its blend of formal compositions, static camera angles and daring color palettes, auteur filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s exploration of female oppression is simultaneously tender and detached. About the film Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà, 1991) is a film by director Zhang Yimou set in 1920’s Northern China. Two separate cinematographers, Lun Yang and Zhao Fei, were given

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