A tragic love story with a strong supernatural undercurrent from 1930s Beijing. Shen is soon to be married but becomes a witness to his fiancée being run over and killed in the street. Having totally lost interest in life, he collects all her belongings in a special room in his house where no one else is allowed to enter. Eventually he remarries but is still obsessed with the dead woman. Then one day his wife finds the key to the room…

The Matrimony is shot in an enormously luscious and colourful way, and the inventive camera movements and placements create a very special, half otherworldly mood. ds