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
Summer Palace (2008)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:17
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Though it suffers from excessive length and inconsistent pacing, Summer Palace is held aloft by Hao Lei's riveting performance.
Synopsis: China, 1989 Two young lovers play out their complex, erotic, love/hate relationship against a volatile backdrop of political unrest. Beautiful Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her... [More]
Reviews for Summer Palace
It's one of the more memorable films in years.
08/25/07
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.
04/19/07
Way too long for something with this little content.
09/14/06
An occasionally involving but way over-stretched tapestry.
05/18/06
Top CriticLou has created a remarkable portrait of a headstrong woman and a generation of Chinese that still finds itself at a crossroads in that country's history.
05/18/06
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