I cannot argue with critics who found the film pretentious and inflated, but I somehow enjoyed it for its deification of the female on her endless journey to eventual oblivion.
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07/29/04
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Zhou Yu's Train (2004)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:23
Rotten:33
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Despite some beautifully framed images, this mood piece, told in a fractured fashion, is confounding and, ultimately, unsatisfying.
Theatrical Release:Jul 16, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Gong Li, star of such epics as RAISE THE RED LANTERN and JU DOU, is unforgettable as the title character in ZHOU YU'S TRAIN, the poignant story of an unusual love triangle set in the Chinese... [More]
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Reviews for Zhou Yu's Train
Top CriticEnchanting and mesmerizing film, in which reality is often mistaken for a dream.
07/15/04
A perceptive, honest and, yes, romantic inquiry into the difficult nature of love in modern, rapidly changing China. Or anywhere, at anytime, really.
07/16/04
A reticent but luminous meditation on love and desire.
07/26/04
What it lacks in depth and substance, the Chinese film Zhou Yu's Train makes up for in mood and elegance.
08/13/04
The back-and-forth approach can be confusing, but it doesn't obscure the picture's chief ideas.
07/23/04
Top CriticA dreamy ride worth taking.
08/12/04
Top CriticIt's passionate, romantic, beautiful enough to inspire poetry, and extremely sad.
08/13/04
A knotty, dreamy paean to romantic longing, Zhou Yu's Train is at once ravishing and precise.
09/17/04
Though the pic makes little sense at a concrete level, Sun and his script collabs manage to keep the wispy craft afloat for 90 minutes through sheer cinematic sleight-of-hand.
07/07/04
It's classy, delicate whimsy, a testament to the way romantic love, however unsatisfied, continues to drive itself.
07/15/04
Zhou Yu's Train stars the incomparable Gong Li as a modern Chinese woman going back and forth between two men who feel unequal to her mystery and her beauty.
07/15/04
Zhou Yu's Train has its strengths, but it's clearly no bullet train.
09/17/04
A nimble, playful piece of moviemaking — and still, somehow, a bit of a drag.
07/18/04
A stylish tone poem of endless journeying to an unattainable goal, a station for which there's no ticket.
07/05/04
Emerges gradually as a lyrical contemplation of the often ambiguous yet persistent nature of love through an intricate structure that fragments the narrative as it moves back and forth through time.
07/15/04
Top CriticIt’s pretty French for a Chinese movie, this bittersweet apparition of a flick...
07/15/04
Watching Sun Zhou's romantic drama Zhou Yu's Train is like reading a poem -- not a great poem, or an entirely clear one, but one that occasionally blooms into beauty, with images that can take the reader's breath away.
07/16/04
...lovely and slight
01/29/05
A terrific film.
08/27/04
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