WILDE’S ROOM
Director Xue Ma
Genre Drama
Location Paris
Language Mandarin, French
Running time 100 minutes
Stage of production in development
Country of production South Korea, United States, France
Year 2026
LOGLINE
Seeking the true meaning of love, an Asian woman travels to Paris and stays in the hotel room where Oscar Wilde spent his final days. There, she meets a stranger and starts a surreal love experiment with him-one that culminates in her imprisoning him in that very room.
SYNOPSIS
Li, a woman in her 30s, has grown distant from her long-time boyfriend in Beijing. Disillusioned with love and intimacy, she travels to Paris and checks into the legendary hotel room where Oscar Wilde spent his final days. There, she meets a mysterious stranger named Nian and, in a surreal twist of emotional and erotic experimentation, imprisons him in the room to test the limits of love, power, and vulnerability. But as the psychological boundaries blur, Li must confront the uncomfortable truth: it is not the man she has trapped, but herself.
After she sets Nian free, Li reunites with her old French friend Juliette in a Paris hot pot restaurant, musing that perhaps men are like the bubbling broth in front of them-a dish best served hot.
Director — Xue Ma
Born in Beijing and based in Seoul, Xue Ma holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from Seoul National University and a PhD in Film Studies from Hanyang University.
Her debut feature, White River (French: La rivière des sens), was selected for the Bright Future section at the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam, released theatrically in France in January 2025 and distributed to North America.