Summer Palace (2008)

Mopey-soapy as it sometimes gets, though, this is intelligent, passionate stuff.

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02/29/08

The saying goes "There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college." Who knew that included actually caring about something?

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03/10/08

This is just the sort of film the festival should be bringing to town, because it's unlikely to show up anywhere else. Rambling and intimate, it plays like the diary of a young woman who makes many, many mistakes, most of them with men.

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04/19/07

With Summer Palace, Lou Ye speaks more plainly in his own voice, tired at last of affecting Wong Kar Wai's florid style of filmmaking, though he is still treading the Wongian terrain of lovelorn melodrama.

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01/11/08

Set against the tumultuous year of 1989, this vividly colorful melodrama of Chinese youth's sex and politics links the initimate and personal with the broader social forces in intriguing, fascinating ways.

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01/28/08

A torrid sexual romance between two students at Beijing University set against the backdrop of changes simmering in China in 1989.

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01/15/08

Though made in 2006, its American release could not have been better timed.

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03/21/08

It's one of the more memorable films in years.

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08/25/07