Flowers of Shanghai
1998, Drama, 2h 5m
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Cast & Crew
Jade
Crimson
Luo
Pearl
Wang
Huang
Critic Reviews for Flowers of Shanghai
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (1)
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The film opens with a brilliant seven-minute take; the languid yet precise cinematography throughout gives it the seductive power of a drug-induced dream.
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Sympathetically depicts ... consuming, love-sick ennui.
May 3, 2005 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… -
It's beautiful to look at, but you must have patience to enjoy it.
April 30, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Flowers of Shanghai is a beautiful, tantalizingly oblique, and thoroughly hypnotic film, a work so sensual that one can nearly smell the perfume wafting from the screen.
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Each scene of Flowers is like an exquisite and decorous mural, worth studying.
January 15, 2005 | Rating: A
Audience Reviews for Flowers of Shanghai
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Mar 25, 2016A gorgeous-looking film with a beautiful art direction and a camera that appears to glide through the sumptuous spaces and rooms of those four brothels in 38 stunning long takes, making it feel almost like a travel in time to the atmospheric Shanghai of the end of the 19th century.Carlos M Super Reviewer
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Jul 12, 2009Multiple viewings in a theater setting MIGHT get this more stars. ... could also induce suicide.Bob S Super Reviewer
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Jul 10, 2009moving very slowly from one blackout scene to the next, beautifully shot in the candlelit rooms of various brothels of the 19th century, flowers of shanghai explores the intrigues of 'flower girls' or courtesans, sold as children into a life little better than slavery. there's alot of drinking, gambling and opium smoking and the film requires a good deal of patience. i probably need to watch it again as i felt as though i had smoked opium myself afterwardStella D Super Reviewer
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Aug 06, 2006Hou Hsiao Hsien's play-like story of a famed brothel (Flower House) in Shanghai is a study of manners in late 19-century China. Sublimely restrained in parts, the opening sequences introducing each courtesan (flower girl) is exquisite and captivating... but I have to admit that I fell asleep in parts and it is pretty slow. The dubbing of Crimson's character also bothered me a fair bit. I loved Pearl and Emerald though, and I wish we could have seen more of Carina Lau's lovely, calm performance of the daughter of the house. Michelle Reis is great fun as the brash, arrogant, independent courtesan, so different from the other meek girls. Too many drinking game scenes! Beautiful score though, and Tony Leung is good although not spectacular. However, I did really love how Flowers... felt like a play in the theatre, from its fades in and out to its static mise-en-scene, but incorporated some great close-up shots of Crimson and Wang sitting quietly, etc. Worth another watch, but not anytime soon.Krystle C Super Reviewer
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