Farewell My Concubine (1993)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:28
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Chen Kaing's epic is grand in scope and presentation, and, bolstered by solid performances, the result is a film both horrifying and enthralling.
Runtime: 2 hrs 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: In Chen Kaige's adaptation of the Lilian Lee novel, Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Fengyi Zhang) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera Academy, where instructors... [More]
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Reviews for Farewell My Concubine
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With stunning set pieces and the dramatic backdrop of the revolution, Kaige captures perfectly the relationship between the two boys. Full Review |
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The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaus of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. Full Review |
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Gong Li is superb and Cheng Kaige's direction suitably grandiose. Full Review |
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This is entertaining filmmaking on a grand scale. Full Review |
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Seductively lensed but emotionally uninvolving. Full Review |
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Chen's remarkable movie uses an unusual love triangle to telescope more than 50 years of tumultuous Chinese history. Full Review |
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2/4 |
the drama is cheesy, simplistic and too stodgy in its presentation to really hold up to its historic framing and epic sweep Full Review |
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4/5 |
Visually impressive and emotionally complex, this historical epic, winner of the Cannes Festival Palme d'Or, relates the tumultuous history of China through the story of two friends who meet as children and become stars of the Peking Opera. Full Review |
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Well-acted but limited because its drama is emotionally uninvolving. Full Review |
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B- |
Sweeping, self-important and only moderately stirring. Full Review |
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Appropriately operatic, Chen's visually spectacular epic is sumptuous in every respect. Intelligent, enthralling, rhapsodic. Full Review |
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Visually stunning Full Review |
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Click here for INTERVIEW with CHEN KAIGE regarding "Together." Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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