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Beauty Remains (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 5  Rotten:5 Average Rating: 5.5/10

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Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 mins

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 mountainside. "Beauty Remains" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their... 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]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Zhou Xun, Vivian Wu, Wang Zhi Wen, Lisa Lu, Zhu Man Fang

Director: Ann Hu
Screenwriter: Beth Schacter, Michael Eldridge, Wang Bin
Producer: Ira Deutchman, Ann Hu, Han San Ping, Ren Zhong Lun
Composer: Sasha Gordon

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The film plays like the work of a fifth-generation Chinese hack faking a lavish Hollywood saga on an indie budget.

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09/25/07
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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1.5/4

So beautifully filmed, it is especially sad that the script doesn't measure up.

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09/21/07
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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2/4

Overwritten dialogue is matched by melodramatic performances.

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09/21/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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The movie's tapestry and matrix of confused emotions is as breathtaking as the period fashions and as breathless as, well, Breathless.

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09/21/07
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
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Ann Hu's Beauty Remains is distinguished by a ghostly, intimate atmosphere that will linger with you long after the plot has faded.

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09/20/07
Andrew O'Hehir
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A tepid and stilted Chinese soap opera about two sisters and their uneasy relationship.

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09/19/07
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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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.

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09/19/07
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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3/4

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.

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09/19/07
Ken Fox
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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.

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09/16/07
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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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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09/10/07
Prairie Miller
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