Film: Summer Palace

Friday, January 18, 2008



The NY Times has a good review on the Lou Ye movie Summer Palace coinciding with its Manhattan release this Friday (first shown at Cannes in 2006) :

Toward the end of Lou Ye’s "Summer Palace," Yu Hong (Lei Hao) reflects that her college years were the “most confused” time in her life. A lot of us might feel similarly, but Yu Hong, the beautiful and passionate heroine of this beautiful and passionate film, is something of a special case.
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