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The Best Screenplay Prize was awarded to Lou Ye for "Spring Fever". ...

 Last night, Director Lou Ye’s controversial film “SpringFever” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Taking place in Nanjing, China,the movie begins with the explicit sex scene between married man Wang Ping (WuWei)  andhis male lover Jiang Cheng (Qin Hao). His ‘secret’ affair is not assecret as he thought when he discovers that his wife Lin Xue (JiangJiaqi) has been having her husband followed by Luo Haitao(ChenSicheng). After fighting with Wang at home, Lin makes a scene atJiang�...

About the film Chinese director has braved a ban on his filmmaking imposed by censors in his own country to make Spring Fever. The feature, which screens In Competition today at Cannes, is the story of a torrid passion within a threesome composed of two men and a beautiful woman. The subject, still highly taboo in Asia, if not elsewhere, was a considerable obstacle to obtaining financing, according to the director, the veteran of two Palme d'Or Competitions, with Purple Butterfly ...