The only importance anyone is likely to associate with this overblown melodrama is self-importance.
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12/06/05
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Pavilion of Women (2001)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:2
Rotten:30
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Generating more suds than a soap opera, this adaptation of Pearl Buck's novel sinks under the weight of excess melodrama, stilted performances, and cheesy dialogue.
Theatrical Release:May 4, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed novel by Nobel Prize winning author Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women is an exquisite tale of freedom and forbidden love set in the last days of imperial China. On her... [More]
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Reviews for Pavilion of Women
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10/06/05
The only importance anyone is likely to associate with this overblown melodrama is self-importance.
09/17/05
Melancholy and plodding.
05/17/02
You have to wonder why this film has been targeted at American audiences at all.
02/08/02
In many ways, this is the East Asian equivalent of the old Europudding productions, where international players have created something that's more cacaphonous than melodious.
06/11/01
Top CriticSuffers from predictable plotting that occasionally heats to a soap-opera boil.
05/23/01
The backdrop of exotic pagodas and wartime woe isn't nearly potent enough to buoy the feeble drama that plays out in the foreground.
05/17/01
Top CriticEven with the brilliant, Oscar-nominated Willem DaFoe in its cast, this movie amounts to nothing more than a waste of two hours.
05/11/01
Despite solid performances and handsome production values, the picture ultimately feels like secondhand goods that have been refurbished for North American consumption.
05/11/01
Top CriticAn instant antique.
05/04/01
Top CriticSuggests a sudsy version of The King and I without forceful personalities or fancy production numbers.
05/04/01
Top CriticGets bogged down in enough 'event' to choke a miniseries.
05/04/01
Top CriticA whole lot of bombast and phony exaltation in the name of entertaining enrichment.
05/04/01
Top CriticViewers have to wade through many embarrassing moments (and performances).
05/04/01
All the peripheral drama in the world can't generate interest in a film with so little sense of melodramatic proportion.
05/04/01
Top CriticIts clumsiness turns it, against its best intentions, into half-baked operatic kitsch.
05/04/01
Top CriticLoaded with ... scenery-chewing melodrama, cornball pidgin dialogue and syrupy music.
05/04/01
Top CriticPlays as little more than a dated potboiler for all its backdrop of impending chaos and wrenching change.
05/04/01
Top CriticIt's stiff and soggy at the same time, and Dafoe's priest-as-Superman performance is unintentionally funny.
05/04/01
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