The film plays like the work of a fifth-generation Chinese hack faking a lavish Hollywood saga on an indie budget.
Beauty Remains (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 5
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: It is 1948; China is on the precipice of a new era, and the decadence of the past has but a breath of history left. On the lush island of a Chinese port city, enormous houses dominate the... It is 1948; China is on the precipice of a new era, and the decadence of the past has but a breath of history left. On the lush island of a Chinese port city, enormous houses dominate the mountainside. "Beauty Remains" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men in their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything. --© Emerging Pictures [More]
Starring: Zhou Xun, Vivian Wu, Wang Zhi Wen, Lisa Lu
Starring: Zhou Xun, Vivian Wu, Wang Zhi Wen, Lisa Lu, Zhu Man Fang
Director: Ann Hu
Director: Ann Hu
Screenwriter: Beth Schacter, Michael Eldridge, Wang Bin
Producer: Ira Deutchman, Ann Hu, Han San Ping, Ren Zhong Lun
Composer: Sasha Gordon
Studio: Emerging Pictures
Reviews for Beauty Remains
So beautifully filmed, it is especially sad that the script doesn't measure up.
The movie's tapestry and matrix of confused emotions is as breathtaking as the period fashions and as breathless as, well, Breathless.
Ann Hu's Beauty Remains is distinguished by a ghostly, intimate atmosphere that will linger with you long after the plot has faded.
A tepid and stilted Chinese soap opera about two sisters and their uneasy relationship.
A delicate figurine of a movie, Beauty Remains is an account of a tragic love triangle set in China in 1948, just before the Communists won the civil war.
Beautifully art directed, costumed and shot (by Scott Kevan, who brought the same to exotic haze to the interiors of Secretary), the whole thing feels like a living, breathing tableaux vivant from a China that is about to abruptly disappear.
Life is a stage in the film%u2014a feeling confirmed by the final shot, in which the characters arrange furniture and pose for the audience, waiting for a standing ovation that will never come.
A luminous, epic dreamscape, reimagining a decaying lost paradise from whose destructive core a buoyant redemptive unshackled political consciousness and redefined, aroused sisterhood rise from the ashes of repressive patriarchy.
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