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Beauty Remains (2007)

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Reviews Counted:10

Fresh:5

Rotten:5

Average Rating:5.5/10

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: It is 1948; China is on the precipice of a new era, and the decadence of the past has but a breath of history left. On the lush island of a Chinese port city, enormous houses dominate the... It is 1948; China is on the precipice of a new era, and the decadence of the past has but a breath of history left. On the lush island of a Chinese port city, enormous houses dominate the mountainside. "Beauty Remains" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men in their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything. --© Emerging Pictures [More]

Starring: Zhou Xun, Vivian Wu, Wang Zhi Wen, Lisa Lu

Starring: Zhou Xun, Vivian Wu, Wang Zhi Wen, Lisa Lu, Zhu Man Fang

Director: Ann Hu

Director: Ann Hu
Screenwriter: Beth Schacter, Michael Eldridge, Wang Bin
Producer: Ira Deutchman, Ann Hu, Han San Ping, Ren Zhong Lun
Composer: Sasha Gordon
Studio: Emerging Pictures

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The film plays like the work of a fifth-generation Chinese hack faking a lavish Hollywood saga on an indie budget.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
09/25/07
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice

So beautifully filmed, it is especially sad that the script doesn't measure up.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
09/21/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

Overwritten dialogue is matched by melodramatic performances.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/21/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

The movie's tapestry and matrix of confused emotions is as breathtaking as the period fashions and as breathless as, well, Breathless.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
09/21/07
Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International

Ann Hu's Beauty Remains is distinguished by a ghostly, intimate atmosphere that will linger with you long after the plot has faded.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
09/20/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

A tepid and stilted Chinese soap opera about two sisters and their uneasy relationship.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
09/19/07
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

A delicate figurine of a movie, Beauty Remains is an account of a tragic love triangle set in China in 1948, just before the Communists won the civil war.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/19/07
Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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Beautifully art directed, costumed and shot (by Scott Kevan, who brought the same to exotic haze to the interiors of Secretary), the whole thing feels like a living, breathing tableaux vivant from a China that is about to abruptly disappear.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/19/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Life is a stage in the film%u2014a feeling confirmed by the final shot, in which the characters arrange furniture and pose for the audience, waiting for a standing ovation that will never come.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
09/16/07
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

A luminous, epic dreamscape, reimagining a decaying lost paradise from whose destructive core a buoyant redemptive unshackled political consciousness and redefined, aroused sisterhood rise from the ashes of repressive patriarchy.

Full Review Source: WBAI Web Radio | comment Comment
09/10/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
WBAI Web Radio
 
 
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