Visually ravishing and emotionally cold, Zhang's third feature is one long series of pushes and pulls.
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02/27/07
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:7
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
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... [More]
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Reviews for Raise the Red Lantern
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Top CriticA beautifully crafted and richly detailed feat of consciousness-raising and a serious drama with the verve of a good soap opera.
05/20/03
Top CriticGong Li delivers a performance of exquisite expressiveness that, like the film itself, is unnerving in its emotional nakedness.
05/12/01
Top CriticIn purely aesthetic terms, Raise the Red Lantern is breathtaking.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe story never amounts to much more than a rather tepid Chinese rendition of The Women.
01/01/00
Top CriticA defining example of Chinese movie-making and one of the best films of the '90s.
01/01/00
Top CriticA Chinese film of voluptuous physical beauty and angry passions.
01/01/00
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