Ju Dou Reviews
EmanuelLevy.Com
Powerful, poignant, and visually stunning, Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou was deservedly nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
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| Original Score: A
Eye for Film
As well as having an eye for the dramatic - such as yards of cloth tumbling from a height or flames licking up a wall - Yimou also has a way of conveying the emotion of a scene with incredible brevity.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Cinema em Cena
Conduzido com segurança por Yimou (ainda em início de carreira), o filme atravessa décadas e conta com um visual rico para narrar uma forte e trágica história de amor.
| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticThe film appealed to me for two reasons. First, because of its unabashed, lurid melodrama, in which the days are filled with scheming and the nights with passion and violence. Second, because of its visual beauty.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
As sumptuously cinematic as it is woefully fatalistic.
Apollo Guide
This is a sumptuous, passionate and bleak look at sexuality and power in China.
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| Original Score: 82/100
Austin Chronicle
Delirious melodrama, Chinese style.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Ju Dou is an emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film.
Movieline
Full of incestuous overtones and punctuated with deaths by fire and water, this gripping melodrama of lust and jealousy is far more Freudian than Marxist; it casts a sultry, James M. Cainish spell.
