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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]
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.
Breathtakingly filmed.
A ticket to this movie is a season's pass on that train -- and you must complete every ride.
Top CriticA perceptive, honest and, yes, romantic inquiry into the difficult nature of love in modern, rapidly changing China. Or anywhere, at anytime, really.
This is one laborious journey, unless you're interested in modern China at its most banal.
It’s pretty French for a Chinese movie, this bittersweet apparition of a flick...
Enchanting and mesmerizing film, in which reality is often mistaken for a dream.
Built out of bits and pieces of successful Chinese films of the recent past, this syrupy romance comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies.
Top CriticEmerges 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.
Top CriticZhou 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.
Deeply felt but overly hyperbolic romance.
Top CriticIt's classy, delicate whimsy, a testament to the way romantic love, however unsatisfied, continues to drive itself.
By the end of the drowsy journey, the characters are indistinguishable from the scenery.
Top CriticSun spends so much time on the mood and atmosphere that he forgets about the story.
The love triangle among pottery maker Zhou Yu (Gong Li), her long-distance poet paramour (Tony Leung Ka Fai), and her fellow traveler (Honglei Sun) devolves from opaque mystery into boring melodramatics and incoherent contrivances.
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.
A stylish tone poem of endless journeying to an unattainable goal, a station for which there's no ticket.
This is disaffection for disaffection’s sake, imagined by a Robert James Waller no less.
A stirring portrait of a modern Chinese woman grappling with her heart, her head and her fragile sense of self.
The heartbreak comes early and often, as it should, but so do inane maxims.
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