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Gong Li,
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Tony Leung Kar-Fai,
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Sun Zhou,
Sun Zhou
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: Columbia TriStar
: Drama, Foreign, Hong Kong, China
: 93 min.
: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
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Sun Zhou's stylized Zhou Yu de Huoche (Zhou Yu's Train) is the story of a woman in love. Zhou Yu (Gong Li) and teacher Chen Ching (Tony Leung Kar-Fai) fall in love. After Ching gives Zhou a poem he wrote for her, she begins taking a train ride twice a week to his home in order to have sex with him. During her time on the train, she strikes up a relationship with a veterinarian (Sun Honglei), but she ends their time together when she learns that he spied on her during one of her visits with Ching. Gong Li has a second role as a another woman obsessed with Chen who is trying to ascertain the nature of his relationship with Zhou. This film was shown out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
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| Insufferable
by yaobong
December 13, 2004 - 6:56 PM PST
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| The worst of French cinema. |
| A beautiful rolling panorama
by JBellows
December 8, 2004 - 8:13 PM PST
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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This was a beautifully rich film to watch. And the acting was quite incredible. The story itself was deft enough to make you want to continue the story and to make you think a bit about the nature of love between people. Also, it was interesting to see China as seen through Chinese eyes. There is the comment that the trip (actually its more like exile) to Tibet doesn't recognize the horror of an occupied nation. But the Chinese don't see it that way. Having said that, the film reminds us of a deeper human involvement--beyond politics and history--and that is the relationships based on love. This particular story transcends greater national interests.
Having said that: the screenwriting and direction were pretty weak. Could have been a lot tighter. The film was loaded with plot holes, red herrings and cheap methods to try to jerk the heart strings. Which is why I give it a 'C'. |
| Chinese Choo-Choo
by talltale
November 24, 2004 - 5:45 AM PST
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2 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| It's tempting to call ZHOU YU'S TRAIN a prime example of Chinese hypocrisy. (What do I know? I've never even been there and just watch movies. Still...) First off, it is non-stop gorgeous to look at. Frame after frame rolls by, like the train of the title, offering up one breathtaking view and camera composition after another. Wow. Wow again. Triple wow. But somewhere along the ride (for us it was between 30 and 40 minutes), you begin to realize that there are no real characters here, just stand-ins that represent artist, woman-in-love, the other man, and so forth. Further, the movie has no sense of reality concerning politics, economics, history, zilch. One character goes off to Tibet as though it were a lovely place to visit, teach children and help the environment. Hello: the Chinese invaded Tibet, conquered it and still hold it prisoner. Well, you?d never know it from this film. Imagine Hollywood making a movie where a character goes to Iraq for a job opportunity and the chance to study Muslim culture. (Under our current administration something similar may be in the works: check out "Voices of Iraq.") There are good things here: The actor who plays the veterinarian is terrific, and it was worth my time just to see the gorgeous Gong Li on-screen once again. But a good movie? Hardly. And quite a surprise, coming as it does from Sony Classics, a distributor that rarely gives us a clinker. |
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