Watch The Trailer For Wayne Wang's SNOWFLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN Starring BingBing Li

SNOWFLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN is the new movie from filmmaker Wayne Wang and stars
Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun , Vivian Wu and Hugh Jackman. The movie is based on a novel by Lisa See that explores the relationship between two girls in 19th-century China who are matched by laotong, which is a a bonded friendship that is regarded as having stronger  ties than that of marriage.
The movie marks a new direction for Wang  as he's never done period drama though looking at the trailer he has made a sensual peice of movie making. You could say that's the director's experience with arthouse filmmaking with such movies of The Joy Luck Club, Blue In the Face, Smoke though he has had a mixed bag of bad luck with mainstream movies such as Maid In Manhattan, and Last Holiday. So when you have  doneeverything else there is only one route to try and thats your period drama!
The movie is been released by Fox Search light and will be released in USA on July 15th, there isnt a UK release yet.

Inspired by the bestselling novel SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship. In 19th-century China, seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong's descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or risk losing one another forever. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.

SNOWFLOWER & SECRET FAN TRAILER from paul devine on Vimeo.
sourceApple