Summer Palace
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- Synopsis
- A romance takes place against some of the most turbulent events in recent Chinese history in this epic-scale story from filmmaker Lou Ye. Yu Hong (Hao Lei) is a beautiful 17-year-old girl who is soon to leave the small border town where she was born ......
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- Starring
- Hao Lei, Guo Xiaodong, Hu Ling
- Director(s)
- Lou Ye
- Distributor(s)
- Palm Pictures
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 140 min.
Critic Reviews
In Summer Palace Lou nonetheless succeeds in finding a cinematic language that does more than summarize the important events of a confusing decade. He distills the inner confusion -- the swirl of moods, whims and needs -- that is the lived and living essence of history.Read the full review
The most important mainland Chinese film this decade.Read the full review
For director Lou Ye, who also co-wrote the script and was a student in Beijing during that crucial year, Summer Palace is the story of his particular lost generation, a story he felt so deeply about he risked his career to tell it. Search out this vivid film in a theater. Don't let the sacrifices he made be in vain.Read the full review
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