‘The Missus’ screens at BAMPFA series
You might have seen the most famous recent adaptation of an Eileen Chang novel, Ang Lee’s excellent World War II spy drama “Lust, Caution.” But there have been Chinese-language adaptations of Chang’s work since shortly after she began publishing in the mid-1940s.
Chang wrote the screenplay for “Long Live the Missus” (1947), a film caught between tradition and modernization that bears her trademark exploration of post-World War II male-female relationships. The film screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, as part of the series “A Golden Age of Chinese Cinema, 1947-52” at Berkeley Art Museum’s Pacific Film Archive.
Also showing is the U.S. premiere of “Quest for a Long Lost Husband” (7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13) and “Suspicion” (8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14) — not a remake of the Hitchock film, but an homage to the master, Chinese style.