Shu Qi

[LolaSvelt]

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The 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival - Shu Qi at the Coco Chanel and Ivor Stravinsky and Closing Night Award Ceremony (May 24th, 2009



celebutopia

 

[Melly5525]

^Love her in this dress, super classy and modern and the teal Valentino is the most lovely color on her!

 

[scriptgirl]

That dark blue dress is a stunner-who is the designer?

 

[nuitblanche]

^ i would also like to know!

shu qi is gorgeous. oddly enough she reminds me SO much of natalia vodianova. it's a shame she isn't a stronger actress. i rented blood brothers not too long ago and was barely able to sit through it..

 

[Liesl]

I find her acting is inconsistent. Sometimes, she's magnificent (like in Three Times) and other times she's downright annoying (Blood Brothers). Strange indeed. She has shown that she definitely has potential though...perhaps she only works well with particular directors? No idea.

Anyway, some magazine shoots

asianfanatics

 

[donner]

Shu Qi used to sex and violence, tired of smiliing.

At the Cannes Film Festival for the first time as part of a jury on the red carpet, Taiwanese actress Shu Qi thoroughly displayed her spellbinding appeal.

In an interview with the media after the award ceremony, Shu expressed that while she learnt a lot from the experience of being part of the festival jury, she has became jaded to sex and violence after watching the competing films.
As a judge, Shu had to watch films and discuss them with the rest of the panel. As a result, she had only managed to catch two hours of sleep over two days, and had to decline the invitation to the post festival celebration. Having been to too many events lately, Shu said her cheek muscles had cramps from smiling.
Being a Chinese among the Westerners, Shu had to depend on a translator to express her views about the films and facilitate discussion.
Of the competing films, Shu said she was initially disgusted and intimidated by some gory scenes, but later became jaded to the sex and violence after watching the artistic films that mainly portray such scenes.
Shu said though she managed to learn a lot on the job, it was too tiring and she will think twice about being on the jury again.
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival drew its curtains on Monday.


From Yahoo Singapore
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/xin/20090528/ten-219-shu-qi-jaded-sex-violence-3c1b9bc.html

 

[donner]

Liesl wrote:

I find her acting is inconsistent. Sometimes, she's magnificent (like in Three Times) and other times she's downright annoying (Blood Brothers). Strange indeed. She has shown that she definitely has potential though...perhaps she only works well with particular directors? No idea.

Hong Kong movies, as well as those made in Taiwan, have been and to large part still are projects done in a short time frame with strict (very strict) budget controls. The director on the set is a dictator--no tech unions--but little control over the script (unless he wrote it) or the cast. So a star and director might wind up working with people they don't particularly like.

Another interesting aspect of Shu Qi's career is that is less type cast than many Hong Kong/Taiwan actresses--she moves between light comedy, slapstick, action, melodrama and other stuff quite easily. Her chameleon-like talent sometimes works against her, making her seem shallow and superficial.

 

[Liesl]

Hong Kong movies, as well as those made in Taiwan, have been and to large part still are projects done in a short time frame with strict (very strict) budget controls. The director on the set is a dictator--no tech unions--but little control over the script (unless he wrote it) or the cast. So a star and director might wind up working with people they don't particularly like.

Another interesting aspect of Shu Qi's career is that is less type cast than many Hong Kong/Taiwan actresses--she moves between light comedy, slapstick, action, melodrama and other stuff quite easily. Her chameleon-like talent sometimes works against her, making her seem shallow and superficial.

Interesting. And that seems about right what you said of Shu Qi's ability to escape typecasting -she's one of the very few in the Chinese ET industry. Unfortunately, she hasn't been getting much good projects there lately.
I hope she proves herself in the upcoming New York, I Love You. It seems to me she's hoping to break into Hollywood in the next few years (there's been talk about her starring alongside Robert De Niro).

 

[LoveLetter]

1st and 2nd: at the premier of her new movie If You Are The One in Taipei
3rd: at a tv cooking program
source: udn

 

[Fantomette]

About her lack of good roles... I discovered her a few years ago with a portray in a newpaper where her carreer was being compared to Maggie Cheung's, with Maggie working in different countries while Shu Qi was desired by some international directors but reluctant to learn english. She just didn't seem to have any particular artistic ambitions - i don't say that in a bad way, it makes her "as desirable as unpredictable" as the journalist put it then. But maybe she changed since then.

On a TV show and at a press conference in June and July (gettyimages.com)

 

[Jenya]

Shu Qi for GUESS A-Star Jeans FW 0910

photographer: Paul Tsang


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[Nefertiti87]

she is a good model

 

[Liesl]

A whole mish mash of randoms I found

baidu

 

[Liesl]

Cannes 2009

45th anniversary of Valentino Fashion House, in Rome, Italy

Others

flickr

 

[loonaka]

I want her lips^^ that's all I can say

 

[donner]

Lovely--I think she always looks great on the red carpet, knows her job and why she is there. And she looks just the slightest bit goofy in the last two in your Cannes series and she does a loveable/goofy turn in movies as well as any actress in the world.

THANK YOU!!

 

[Bacata]

she was the most beautiful thing in New York, I Love You.

allmoviephoto

 

[ponytrot]

She's extraordinarily beautiful - somehow reminds me of a chinese Natalia Vodianova

 

[Marciano Olsz]

Phenomonel body, lips, hair and face! Ideal woman.

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

She's extraordinarily beautiful - somehow reminds me of a chinese Natalia Vodianova

quite a spot-on!
and I didn't know she was in New York I Love You!