April 21, 2022 — In advance of the release of his latest film, Saturday Fiction, in the United States, acclaimed director Lou Ye sat down for a virtual conversation with UCLA Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies Michael Berry. They discuss Lou’s student days at the Beijing Film Academy in the 1980s, the through-lines of identity and literary adaptation that appear in several of his works, and his process of working with Saturday Fiction star Gong Li. (52 min., 18 sec.)