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
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... [More]
Reviews for Beauty Remains
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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.
09/20/07
Top CriticLife 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.
09/16/07
Overwritten dialogue is matched by melodramatic performances.
09/21/07
The movie's tapestry and matrix of confused emotions is as breathtaking as the period fashions and as breathless as, well, Breathless.
09/21/07
A tepid and stilted Chinese soap opera about two sisters and their uneasy relationship.
09/19/07
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.
09/19/07
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.
09/19/07
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.
09/10/07
So beautifully filmed, it is especially sad that the script doesn't measure up.
09/21/07
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