Zhou Yu's Train (2003)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 56
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 33
Despite some beautifully framed images, this mood piece, told in a fractured fashion, is confounding and, ultimately, unsatisfying.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 13
Despite some beautifully framed images, this mood piece, told in a fractured fashion, is confounding and, ultimately, unsatisfying.
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Sun Zhou's stylized Zhou Yu de Huoche (Zhou Yu's Train) is the story of a woman in love. Zhou Yu (Gong Li) and teacher Chen Ching (Tony Leung Kar-Fai) fall in love. After Ching gives Zhou a poem he wrote for her, she begins taking a train ride twice a week to his home in order to have sex with him. During her time on the train, she strikes up a relationship with a veterinarian (Sun Honglei), but she ends their time together when she learns that he spied on her during one of her visits with
Cast
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Li Gong
Xiu, Zhou Yu -
Tony Leung Ka Fai
Chen Ching -
Honglei Sun
Zhang -
Zhixiong Li
Train conductor -
Shi Chunling
Xiang -
Liu Weiguang
Liu -
Gao Jingwen
Tao -
Dai Ke
Librarian -
Pan Weiyan
Uncle Guai -
Huang Mo
Zhou Yu as a young girl -
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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (33) | DVD (5)
Li fails to stoke much heat in Sun Zhou's pretentious and symbolic love triangle.
Top CriticBeautiful to look at but aimless as a broken compass.
Zhou Yu's Train has its strengths, but it's clearly no bullet train.
This is one of those languid numbers where slow motion -- and there's lots of it -- is meant to signify poetry, and a line like 'I know my lake is artificial, but it's full of water' is supposed to seem lyrical.
A terrific film.
The effort required at the end of Zhou Yu's Train to sort out exactly what just went down isn't worth the payoff.
...lovely and slight
See Zhou Yu's Train for the interesting Chinese scenery, or see it to feast your eyes on the always beautiful Gong Li, but don't see it for the drama
A film that has considerably less on its mind than it thinks.
It just may be a movie that has difficulty transcending national borders.
[Zhou Yu]'s contradictory impulses, as well as a convoluted narrative structure, make Zhou Yu's Train a rough ride.
The whole thing would be pretty painful if not for the presence of Gong, who makes some of it watchable.
Most, I suspect, will walk out of the theater wondering why they had to work so hard for so little reward.
When the sum of this film's parts are measured, it is nothing more than a celebration of the exquisitely beautiful Gong Li.
A knotty, dreamy paean to romantic longing, Zhou Yu's Train is at once ravishing and precise.
Zhou Yu's Train looks good, but there's no denying that there's very little lurking underneath its pretty surface.
Has a tiny little point -- living solely by one's emotions can be a painful time-waster -- but it makes that point within a needlessly tricky structure and with too much time spent on images that amount to pretty, poetic filler.
Dramatically, this train never leaves the station.
[An] over-conceived, over-edited, under-written perfume ad.
Even the Chinese star with the soulful face can't make Zhou Yu's Train any less dreary than its confused script dictates.
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