The Pietermaritzburg University Film Club is showing Zhang Yimou's 1994 Shanghai Triad on March 23.

This is a gangster film, Chinese style. The story focuses on a young boy hired to be the servant of a nightclub owner who is also the mistress of a Triad boss. The film explores the limits of feminine sexual power in a world of male violence.

Films are at 18h00 in the CVA lecture theatre in Ridge Road, Pietermaritzburg. There is safe parking