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Raise the Red Lantern (DVD)

Gong Li (actor), Ma Jingwu (actor) and Yimou Zhang (director)
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Synopsis

When a beautiful young woman is selected to serve as concubine to an affluent man, she sadly accepts -- knowing that she has no other alternative to survive financially. Her fate, however, turns from bad to worse when her master's other wives, all older and not as attractive, callously alienate the newcomer due to their sexual jealousy.

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Review

Rolling Stone, 03/19/1992, p.102, "...Gong Li delivers a performance of exquisite expressiveness that, like the film itself, is unnerving in its emotional nakedness..."

New York Times, 03/20/1992, p.C18, "...A beautifully crafted and richly detailed feat....[Gong] reveals unexpected sharpness as well as great depths of dignity and sorrow..."

Chicago Sun-Times, 03/27/1992, p.41, "...A Chinese film of voluptuous physical beauty and angry passions..."

USA Today, 08/03/2007, p.11D, 4 stars out of 4 -- "The use of color is exquisite, sensual and as imaginative as Zhang's framing of shots."

Film Comment, 11/01/1991, p.42-4, "...A dazzling dynastic melodrama....Presented with a precise and lustrous pictorial beauty unseen in Eastern cinema since KAGEMUSHA..."

Entertainment Weekly, 05/01/1992, p.34, "...As slow, quiet and ritualized as the life it depicts....Zhang revels in the beauty of his actresses..."

Los Angeles Times, 03/13/1992, p.F14, "...A film of astonishing beauty and terror that has the impact of a Greek or Shakespearean tragedy..."

Title Note

Co-produced by Era International (Hong Kong), Salon Film (Hong Kong) and China Film.

Additional cast: Ma Jingwu, He Caifei, Qao Quifen and Jin Shuyan.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
(unspecified) - Chinese/Mandarin
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional

Product Notes

The old master of a powerful family in 1920's China supports three wives. Each has her own house within the closed world of the family compound, where every evening a red lantern is lit in front of the door of the wife with whom the master chooses to sleep. Let the rivalries begin.

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