青蛇

Tsui Hark’s Green Snake reimagines the legendary folktale of the White Snake with a provocative and subversive lens. Unlike traditional retellings that center on the White Snake’s romance, Tsui shifts the perspective to Green Snake (Maggie Cheung), a younger, mischievous, and sensuous spirit that blurs the lines between love, morality, and human desire.

With its lush cinematography, striking visual effects, and experimental storytelling, Green Snake transcends the boundaries of fantasy and eroticism, challenging Buddhist orthodoxy and Confucian ideals. A fever dream of colors and emotions, the film is an intoxicating fable that questions the very nature of human and non-human existence. (CiLENS)