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MFAH Film Houston Premieres: The Assassin (Nie Yinniang)

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MFAH Film Houston Premieres: The Assassin (Nie Yinniang)

When
November 27, 2015
Where
Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006
Cost
$2 - $1001
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another in its Houston Premieres series. Enjoy these critically acclaimed, award-winning international films as they make their Houston debut!

The Assassin (Nie Yinniang) 
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
2015, in Mandarin with English subtitles
Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France
105 minutes, DCP

Master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien won Best Director at Cannes for this lavishly told tale, which occurs in the 9th century when China is being torn apart militarily. Y

inniang (Shu Qi) was abducted as a child and lives in the countryside. Trained as an unrivaled practitioner of the martial arts, she is sent back to her hometown of Weibo on a mission of vengeance.

The British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound says The Assassin “takes control of the wuxia period with a Tang dynasty martial-arts fable of mysterious and revelatory command.”

Community partners: Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston; Taiwan Academy of TECO in Houston

The Montrose Management District
board workshop meeting scheduled for April 3
has been postponed indefinitely.