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Release Date: 27 November, 2001 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: |
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Don't miss this wonderful film!
This Amazon data lists French only in the Language column but it's an error. This DVD has original Mandarin along with French as audio. It's truly a woderful film. This film reminds you how woderful love is.
A wonderful story told in a wonderful way
This a tribute to pure, honest, life lasting love but at the same time it is a tribune to the liberation of women from the customs of a society that predetermined their entire life and behavior.
There is something beautiful in every aspect of this film, something that we enjoy and something that we can share with the heroes of this story either this is happiness or sadness.
And yet, one thing stands above all.
The fact that this film can be considered as a an eulogy and tribute to the teachers the world round.
This is where one can see the difference of the teaching as a profession and as a rite, a service to community.
This film says the story of those brave teachers who were ready to dedicate their entire life in order to give to the deprived children of the countryside the basics of education.
My parents were teachers too and in the 30s when they started teaching they too had to accept as part of their salary a daily contribution from the villagers in the form of foodstuff.
I thought of it as degrading and when I saw the same story, told in this film I realized that there were no budgets for education during those years and there was a different approach to contribution either for the survival of the teachers or for building a school etc.
This beautiful story is told in a perfect way through the brilliant directing of Zhang Yimou and the acting of Zhang Ziyi and Zheng Hao
But the one who must be awarded with our respect and admiration is the director of photography Hou Yong who captures light and details in both colour and black/white in such an intensive way.
His ability to reverse the expected and use black/ white for recent scenes and colour when referring to the old story telling is exceptional.
This film is highly recommended for those who love Chinese quality cinema and for those who want to have an introduction in the best the Chinese Film Industry has to offer.
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