Tuya's Marriage (Tuya de hun shi) Critic Reviews

Thoroughly gratifying in its consistent inventiveness and has a grasp of human nature so universal that there's no feeling of the exotic about the film and its people.Read the full review

Though a heartbreaking film, there are certainly moments of quirky humor.Read the full review

Mr. Wang and his screenwriting collaborator, Lu Wei (“Farewell My Concubine”), portray a world that, apart from its hardship, is thoroughly recognizable in its human complexity. Its characters are motivated by the same needs for companionship and material well-being and the same demons — greed, lust, jealousy and despair -- that drive everybody.Read the full review

It's not a great movie, but Yu Nan's performance is superb without being showy or melodramatic.Read the full review

The film has an ending that anyone who has watched a movie in the last 15 years will see coming half an hour into the film. But even with that, the weight of the performances from Yu Nan and Bater is enough to make for a satisfying, if uneven, film.Read the full review