Le banquet de la concubine / Banquet of the Concubine
Hefang Wei
CA/FR
2012,
12'50
In the year 746, during the Tang Dynasty, a banquet is given in the Imperial City in honour of Emperor Li’s favourite concubine. An unsatisfied craving, suspected infidelity and fevered imagination lead Yang to bitter excess, which not even the luscious lychee can appease.