From his strong debut film "Rules of Dating" to "The Show Must Go On", about the uncommon life of a gangster who just wanted to be a common father and husband; to The Face Reader, a period film about the art of physiognomy; to The King, about the dual faces of people in power, Han Jae-rim has built his reputation as a director who combines commercial appeal with sophisticated filmmaking and storytelling.
Director Han Jae-rim's films often focus on universal incidents that take place in special situations, and special stories that take place in universal settings. This is why audiences find his works fascinating. This time, director Han will talk about his recent release, Emergency Declaration , and will offer his insights about the "Korean wave" cinema in general. Time and place: Sep.
Munch's house, UiO Blindern. Yan Geling gives a lecture in English, followed by questions and discussion. Free entrance. Books by Yan Geling range from stories about a youth who is a dancer in the Chinese army to novels about the treatment of prisoners of conscience during the Cultural Revolution. Several of her novels have been made into films Coming Home, One Second , many of them have been published in English, and now the first of them, Fusang, is being translated into Swedish.
Censored in China Yan Geling has repeatedly been at the center of political controversy in China. She has lived in the United States since , and the encyclopedia article about her on the Baidu Encyclopedia a kind of Chinese Wikipedia has long since been removed.
Films for which she has written scripts have also removed her name from the list of contributors. Her novels can no longer be published in China.
