Fleeing By Night
In the heart breaking tradition of Farewell to My Concubine, Fleeing By  Night is a lush period piece that follows the love triangle of three men against the  backdrop of the Chinese opera and wonderfully conveys a universal tale of unrequited  love.  Written and directed by a producer of both The Wedding Banquet and Crouching  Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this film was an official selection of the San Francisco Lesbian  and Gay Film Festival and the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.  One of the  most striking film s to come out of Asia in recent years, this Chinese epic has everything:  romance, history, spectacle and sheer go-for-broke melodrama.  Yet, as directed by LI- Kong Hsu and Chi Yin from a screenplay by Hui-Ling Wang and Ming-Xia Wang,  Fleeing By Night makes its greatest impression though subtlety.  Set primarily in the  1930's, it tells of the unrequited passion of a theater owner's daughter and the cellist who  would have been her fiancé for a mesmerizing Chinese opera star who is kept by a  wealthy, controlling, yet oddly sympathetic lover.