What is Said and Left Unsaid in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flowers of Shanghai Christopher Lupke March 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Hai shang hua (Flowers of Shanghai, 1998) is a film constructed like no other: it doesn’t follow the conventions of gradual and deliberate narrative unfolding; it doesn’t vary sets greatly; it...
