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The man who allegedly bid over 15 million euros to buy two bronze sculptures that caused such a tizzy in China over the last week has no intention on paying for them, according to the BBC.

Sina.com had a survey up about the recent Christie's auction, in which two bronze animal heads looted from the Summer Palace in the 1719th century fetched 15.7 million euros. The survey results, translated into English, were thus:

By Kate Ray

Of how many movies of late, or any time, can you say that "it took courage to make this film"? Summer Palace (颐和园), can be safely said to be one of those films.

Photo from Slow Boat to China: Winter time at the Summer Palace in Chengde.

No, this is actually the Summer Palace in Beijing! But that hasn't stopped two laowai's from stripping down to their birthday suits five days ago and enjoying the last of the summer sun in Yihe Yuan (颐和园 or the Garden of Health and Harmony) -- oblivious to the curious stares of the tourists around them. Unfortunately, all good things, as they say, must come to an end. It was not long before some friendly neighbourhood Public Security Bureau guys came and escorted them away.

Well, opening today in France, at least. We first told you about Summer Palace, the controversial film from Shanghai-born director Lou Ye, last May. Since then, the director of Weekend Lover (1995), Suzhou River (2000) and Purple Butterfly (2003) has been banned for five years from making films in China for submitting Summer Palace to the Cannes Film Festival before it was approved by government censors. This was Lou Ye's second ban — Suzhou River got him two years.

Shanghaiist was thinking about how to characterize a movie like this: We mulled over “worst movie we’ve ever seen,” and thought this too harsh, as there are probably loads of worse movies that we’ve seen but have repressed the memory of. And we hope the same happens with this movie.

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Chinese director Lou Ye (娄烨）has run afoul of the censors at the Film Bureau for submitting his film Summer Palace (颐和园）to the Cannes Film Festival without the government's approval. Those of you familiar with the rules of the game know that this not only gets you on the blacklist, it prevents your film from getting shown in the theaters in China. However, the more we read about this situation the more confused we get.

Most people climb the Great Wall. Some run up it. A few strange souls ride their unicycles on it. And 1000 saxophonists are planning to gather on it to play their instruments in unison (if you've scheduled an outing to Badaling that day, we strongly suggest a stroll around the Summer Palace instead).