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The picture is, indeed, as deliriously enjoyable as it sounds, but with the added dimension of age-old tradition forcing the characters into roles they don't want to play. Jul 6, 2010 | Full Review…
The picture is, indeed, as deliriously enjoyable as it sounds, but with the added dimension of age-old tradition forcing the characters into roles they don't want to play.
Variety Staff
Its dark wit and fiery pace ensure that even the occasional overheated moments carry conviction. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Its dark wit and fiery pace ensure that even the occasional overheated moments carry conviction.
Geoff Andrew
The film appealed to me for two reasons. First, because of its unabashed, lurid melodrama, in which the days are filled with scheming and the nights with passion and violence. Second, because of its visual beauty. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The film appealed to me for two reasons. First, because of its unabashed, lurid melodrama, in which the days are filled with scheming and the nights with passion and violence. Second, because of its visual beauty.
Roger Ebert
As sumptuously cinematic as it is woefully fatalistic. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
As sumptuously cinematic as it is woefully fatalistic.
Rita Kempley
Powerful, poignant, and visually stunning, Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou was deservedly nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. Feb 19, 2011 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Powerful, poignant, and visually stunning, Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou was deservedly nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Emanuel Levy
As well as having an eye for the dramatic - such as yards of cloth tumbling from a height or flames licking up a wall - Yimou also has a way of conveying the emotion of a scene with incredible brevity. Jun 13, 2008 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
As well as having an eye for the dramatic - such as yards of cloth tumbling from a height or flames licking up a wall - Yimou also has a way of conveying the emotion of a scene with incredible brevity.
Amber Wilkinson
Conduzido com segurança por Yimou (ainda em início de carreira), o filme atravessa décadas e conta com um visual rico para narrar uma forte e trágica história de amor. Mar 28, 2006 | Rating: 4/5
Conduzido com segurança por Yimou (ainda em início de carreira), o filme atravessa décadas e conta com um visual rico para narrar uma forte e trágica história de amor.
Pablo Villaça
Delirious melodrama, Chinese style. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Delirious melodrama, Chinese style.
Marjorie Baumgarten
Ju Dou is an emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Ju Dou is an emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film.
Chris Hicks
This is a sumptuous, passionate and bleak look at sexuality and power in China. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 82/100
This is a sumptuous, passionate and bleak look at sexuality and power in China.
Dan Jardine
"Ju Dou" tells the story of love between two people at the mercy of a cruel uncle and husband. Yang Tianqing (Li Baotian) is working for his uncle Yang Jinshan (Li Wei) at his textile mill where he dyes fabric. Tianqing learns that his uncle has purchased a new wife, this is his third, he had beat the other two to death for not being able to produce him a boy. It's no fault of these women, he's impotent and takes this anger out on these women. The new wife, and the new aunt to Tianqing, is a beautiful young woman named Ju Dou (Li Gong). Tiaqing becomes smitten with her, spying on her as she undresses and bathes. Soon, the two become lovers and she becomes pregnant with his son. Jinshan believes the kid is his until he becomes paralyzed and is forced to rely upon the two to take care of him. After several failed attempts at trying to kill the kid, he is put in a barrell high above the ground. He eventually comes to love the kid as his son when the kid accidentily refers to him as father setting about a chain of events that will end tragic. Beautifully filmed by Zhang Yimou on three-strip Technicolor. It has an aged feeling in it's beauty, but magnificently show it's yellows, golds and reds in such exuberance.
Super Reviewer
A tragic love story set against the colorful backdrop of a Chinese dye mill. The fantastic cinematography makes Ju-Dou a treat for the eyes even though the story is heartbreaking and sad. Highly recommended!
My first encounter with Zhang Yimou and it left a lasting impression. A must see for sure.
The story is both unpleasant and yet interesting. Few of the characters really connected with me. Ju Dou, becomes the object of sympathy right from the start. Her life is horrible, and even the relationship with Tianqing ultimately strikes me as unsatisfying, because frankly Tianqing was a wimp. The character of Tianqinq comes across as childish and immature and afraid of everything. In a way, the most powerful character was the adolescent Tianbai, Ju Dou's son. He only appears in the last part of the movie, but he comes across as completely hateful and totally unemotional. It all leads up to a tragic and confusing ending. The love scenes and violence are visual limited, because of Chinese limitations, I guess, But all in all Ju Dou is a stunning film and worth to watch.
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