Rouge

Rouge is a sensuous and melancholy film about a beautiful ghost searching for her lost lover in modern Hong Kong. Fleur (Anita Mui) and “Twelfth Master” (Leslie Cheung) committed suicide fifty years ago, intending to spend eternity together in Hell rather than be separated by his disapproving parents. But when “Twelfth Master” fails to join her in the afterlife, Fleur returns to Earth to find him. She befriends a journalist couple. Fascinated by her archaic clothes, language, and otherworldly manner, they agree to help. Slipping back and forth in time, “Rouge is something like the Platonic ideal of a cinematic ghost story” (Dennis Lim, Criterion Collection).