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Release Date: 23 October, 2001 Retail Price: $29.99 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: |
Suzhou River Reviews
Wierd movie.
I purchased this movie because it was directed by the same man who directed one of my favorite movies called Purple Butterfly. This movie, Suzhou River, was not near as good as Purple Butterfly but I like it. You can tell that it's the same director with it's rough editing and home movie style camera work. This movie would seem to be Ye Lou's first effort, being done on a very low budget. You can feel the heart put into this movie but it is far from a masterpiece. However, seeing where Ye Lou's films have gone from this point make me respect him even more, and in a strange way gives me a deep appreciation for this bizarre movie. I look forward to more films from this brilliant, and underappreciated, director.
Haunting
This movie also reminds me of Wong Kar Wai's work but it is more gritty, more quirky, and darker. Like Wong Kar Wai's films it manages to touch a place somewhere in between reality and fantasy that probably most of us have visited at some time but find difficult to express. Some of the shots and sequences while appearing rough, spontaneous and improvised are genuinely striking and even often beautiful. The cameos of life on the river and oblique suggestiveness of the mermaid sightings are brilliantly done. The film sucks you into a story where reality and fantasy intertwine with a sense of ultimate futility, helped by the alternately gamine and broody Zhu Xun. I have seen it twice and will probably see it several more times. It is difficult to forget a film like this.
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