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Movie Description
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.
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.
Industry Reviews
"...A beautifully crafted and richly detailed feat....[Gong] reveals unexpected sharpness as well as great depths of dignity and sorrow..."
Maslin
"...A dazzling dynastic melodrama....Presented with a precise and lustrous pictorial beauty unseen in Eastern cinema since KAGEMUSHA..."
Film Comment - Harlan Kennedy (11/01/1991)
"...As slow, quiet and ritualized as the life it depicts....Zhang revels in the beauty of his actresses..."
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman (05/01/1992)
"...A film of astonishing beauty and terror that has the impact of a Greek or Shakespearean tragedy..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (03/13/1992)
"...A Chinese film of voluptuous physical beauty and angry passions..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (03/27/1992)
4 stars out of 4 -- "The use of color is exquisite, sensual and as imaginative as Zhang's framing of shots."
USA Today - Mike Clark (08/03/2007)
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