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Assured, vital and well wrought, the film is, arguably, the most accomplished work to date from Hong Kong's versatile Stanley Kwan.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

It's really just old- fashioned melodrama, dressed up with lustrous cinematography and a few nods to history.Full Review

San Francisco Chronicle

It's not often that Chinese cinema tackles same-sex relationships, and rarer still to see a film of such stark, muted emotion coming from mainland China.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

It's really just old- fashioned melodrama, dressed up with lustrous cinematography and a few nods to history.Full Review

Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle

At times too restrained, yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most American love stories look downright unfree.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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