Though made in 2006, its American release could not have been better timed.
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03/21/08
Summer Palace (2008)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:7
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Though it suffers from excessive length and inconsistent pacing, Summer Palace is held aloft by Hao Lei's riveting performance.
Theatrical Release:Jan 18, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: China, 1989 Two young lovers play out their complex, erotic, love/hate relationship against a volatile backdrop of political unrest. Beautiful Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her... [More]
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Reviews for Summer Palace
1 - 9 (sorted by date)
Top CriticSearch out this vivid film in a theater. Don't let the sacrifices he [Director Lou Ye] made be in vain.
02/29/08
Top CriticI still must recommend Summer Palace, especially for the remarkably strong performance by Hao Lei as Yu Hong, the daughter of a shopkeeper in the provinces.
01/18/08
Top CriticLou Ye's Summer Palace examines youthful idealism and its unhappy aftermath.
01/18/08
Top CriticIn Yu Hong (Hao Lei), the film also has a vibrant heroine.
01/17/08
Top CriticCombines flashes of insight and scintillating cinematography -- grainy, fumbling, light-blinded -- with stretches of inscrutable mediocrity.
01/15/08
Top CriticIn truth, I’ve never seen so much lovemaking in an aboveground film, but the revelation, and great triumph, of Lou’s work is that these scenes are never pornographic -- that is, never separated from emotion.
01/14/08
Top CriticAn occasionally involving but way over-stretched tapestry.
05/18/06
Top CriticLou has created a remarkable portrait of a headstrong woman and a generation of Chinese that still finds itself at a crossroads in that country's history.
05/18/06
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