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TGIFree Friday Giveaway: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan DVD
Post by Audrey Mag • October 28, 2011 • Post a comment

Have you not yet caught Wayne Wang‘s beautiful adaption of Lisa See‘s best-selling novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan?

Starring Chinese film queen Li Bing Bing (Audrey’s Summer covergal!) and My Sassy Girl‘s Gianna Jun, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship.

There’s a whole lot of star power behind the cameras as well. In addition to Joy Luck Club’s Wang direction and See’s writing, media mogul maidens Wendi Murdoch and Florence Sloan producing.

Here’s a synopsis of the film:

In 19th-century China, seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong – or “old sames” – bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan.
In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong’s descendants, Nina (Li Bing Bing, who also plays an older Lily) and Sophia (Gianna Jun, who also plays an older Snow Flower), struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or risk losing one another forever.
What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.

So have you seen it yet? Because if you haven’t (and even if you have), Audrey Magazine is giving away Snow Flower and the Secret Fan DVDs to THREE (3) lucky winners for this week’s TGIFree Friday!

HOW TO ENTER:

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  3. COMMENT BELOW: Tell us what’s your favorite holiday movie.

You may enter as many times as you wish! Contest ends Wednesday, November 2nd, 11:59 PST. You must have a mailing address to win. Gluck!


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Unbound | Li Bing Bing
Post by Audrey Mag • September 06, 2011 • Post a comment

Chinese actress Li Bing Bing unleashes her star power in auteur Wayne Wang’s latest film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan — a lush visual feast of celluloid based on Lisa See’s best-selling novel, revealing a secret language and a sacred bond of sisterhood that gave women a voice and freed their souls.

ISSUE: Summer 2011

DEPT: Cover Feature

Photographer Ken Pao

Wardrobe Anna Katsanis

Makeup & Hair Elle German

Photo Assistants Leo Salvaggio, Noah Ehlert

Story Teena Apeles

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The Heart of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Post by han • July 24, 2011 • Post a comment

Lisa See‘s bestselling novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, explores the complex nuances of female friendship between childhood friends Snow Flower and Lily in 19th century China. They are laotongs, “old sames,” bound together in sisterhood as tight as their own painfully bound feet through their devotional love for one another and the suffering they endure together from the woes and demands of being married women in their time. Nushu, a secret language known only to women, further cements their bond as they write to each other on the folds of fans and exchange them furtively.

In the film adaptation of the novel, out in theaters now, Snow Flower and Lily face their personal challenges with quiet strength and sacrifice and treat each other with tenderness rarely seen in any kind of relationship today, a delicate emotional balance that Chinese actress Li Bing Bing and Korean actress Gianna Jun achieved with astonishing dignity.

Cast for their contrasting appearances, Li and Jun take on the role of Lily and Snow Flower in addition to Nina and Sofia, respectively, the latter a pair of modern day women in Shanghai, which director Wayne Wang felt was a necessary addition to the story line.

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: NY Tribeca Screening
Post by Janice • July 16, 2011 • Post a comment

Troves of star power trekked out to the Snow Flower and the Secret Fan screening at the Tribeca Grand Hotel last week. And the fashion, though tamer than, say, the Cannes Film Fest or NY fashion week, was still something to be noted.

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Cannes 2011: Stars Of “Snow Flower and The Secret Fan”
Post by Janice • May 21, 2011 • Post a comment

With 2011 Cannes Film Festival still underway, stars have been popping up like tulips in glamorous red-carpet wear.

I’m happy to say that most are looking mighty fine and elegant. I mean, take Audrey‘s Summer 2011 cover girl, Li Bing Bing (above). How gorgeous (and prom queen-ready) does she look in this sky blue swan Georges Chakra couture?

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Snow Flower and The Secret Fan Trailer RELEASED
Post by Janice • March 18, 2011 • Post a comment

The highly anticipated film adaptation of Lisa See‘s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan will hit theaters in July 15th and we have a first look at the official trailer.
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