A heavily-redacted biopic about Freddie Mercury that omits a substantial part of the singer's life? Yes, that is possible—in China (among other countries). Morally cleansing the story of “Bohemian Rhapsody” to conceal some uncomfortable (for some) truth is unfortunately part of the orthodoxy in this otherwise grand, wonderful, but sometimes perplexing, country that is China. But this could've happened in Russia, Pakistan or around Mike Pence's dinner table, to be sure. Before its release, the biopic, which is devoted to Queen's vivacious lead singer's life

In a China haphazardly completing its rapid economic transformation Cui Zi'en is an independent documentary filmmaker who braves censorship in order to represent societal changes through the eyes of the indigent. "We are a comic-heroic generation, a lost generation," a young man says in “Night Scene,” Zi’en’s documentary about Beijing’s young male prostitutes which is being shown here in Paris at the Forum des images, a multi-