With its beautiful look and haunting themes and sublime performances, Raise The Red Lantern is Yimou's master work.
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12/07/07
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:22
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: When a beautiful young woman is selected to serve as concubine to an affluent man, she sadly accepts -- knowing that she has no other alternative to survive financially. Her fate, however, turns... [More]
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07/26/07
Visually ravishing and emotionally cold, Zhang's third feature is one long series of pushes and pulls.
02/27/07
One of Yimou's two or three masterpieces, this visually stunning film offers an extraordinary view of gender, sexuality, female rivalry and bonding in a historical context (1920s China) that bears some political relevance to the present time.
10/31/06
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06/24/06
Funcionando tanto como drama quanto como alegoria, o filme desenvolve seu tema com uma fotografia não apenas belíssima, mas também simbólica.
03/28/06
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05/19/05
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04/13/05
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01/13/05
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11/19/04
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01/24/04
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08/22/03
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06/21/03
A beautifully crafted and richly detailed feat of consciousness-raising and a serious drama with the verve of a good soap opera.
05/20/03
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09/03/02
The film is always engrossing.
01/09/02
Gong Li delivers a performance of exquisite expressiveness that, like the film itself, is unnerving in its emotional nakedness.
05/12/01
A masterpiece.
01/01/00
The film is a bit slow in places, but it's so involving that the audience probably won't mind.
01/01/00
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