Peking Opera Blues (Do ma daan)

A scene where three women have a sleepover and discuss how they are going to kill a General is basically my ideal cinema

Willow Maclay

The theater backdrop and its own set of internal rules are a perfect setting for an intersection of revolutionary politics and gender roles. Everyone is engaged in one kind of performance or another, and even the action scenes hurtle through the levels of the set. This…

matt lynch

Agitpop cinema. Let's put a show, kill the general, and bringing down the order (and some genre/gender barriers along the way). Tsui of nationalistic awe and punk suspicion at tradition (here in the figure of the Peking Opera inside the text and the multiple East/West…

Filipe Furtado

Just girls being girls. And girls being guys. And guys being girls.

Penny

Brigitte Lin is always cool but she might be the coolest woman who ever lived in this

David Sims

a shifting enigmatic array of gender expression, conspiracies and class warfare. the constant interplay between the political sphere and the theatrical performance is so fascinating, the film folds several layers of deep social critique below seemingly innocuous comedy and…

comrade_yui

One moment when you're watching Peking Opera Blues you're watching one of the funniest movies ever made, the next you're watching one of the most thrilling espionage movies ever made, and then another you're watching one of the most grim historical dramas ever made. Peking…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Revolution on a stage.

Filipe Furtado

The ontological irreducibility of gender as material, and its overwhelming multiplicity that potentiates revolution. Rather than deconstructing it, Peking Opera Blues wisely intensifies and proliferates gender instead to forefront the capacity of affirmative belongings in…

reibureibu