With its beautiful look and haunting themes and sublime performances, Raise The Red Lantern is Yimou's master work.
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
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Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 23
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: When a beautiful young woman is selected to serve as concubine to an affluent man, she sadly accepts -- knowing that she has no other alternative to survive financially. Her fate, however, turns... When a beautiful young woman is selected to serve as concubine to an affluent man, she sadly accepts -- knowing that she has no other alternative to survive financially. Her fate, however, turns from bad to worse when her master's other wives, all older and not as attractive, callously alienate the newcomer due to their sexual jealousy. [More]
Starring: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, Jin Shuyuan, Cao Cuifeng
Starring: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, Jin Shuyuan, Cao Cuifeng, He Caifei
Director: Yimou Zhang
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Reviews for Raise the Red Lantern
Visually ravishing and emotionally cold, Zhang's third feature is one long series of pushes and pulls.
One of Yimou's two or three masterpieces, this visually stunning film offers an extraordinary view of gender, sexuality, female rivalry and bonding in a historical context (1920s China) that bears some political relevance to the present time.
Funcionando tanto como drama quanto como alegoria, o filme desenvolve seu tema com uma fotografia não apenas belíssima, mas também simbólica.
A beautifully crafted and richly detailed feat of consciousness-raising and a serious drama with the verve of a good soap opera.
Gong Li delivers a performance of exquisite expressiveness that, like the film itself, is unnerving in its emotional nakedness.
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