Raise The Red Lantern details

Raise The Red Lantern
Format: PG DVD
Starring: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, Jingwu Ma
Director: Zhang Yimou
Genres: Drama - General, World Cinema - Chinese
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Raise The Red Lantern
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DVD Information

Run time: 2 hours
Rental release: Not currently released
Main languages: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
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  • A visually arresting and intriguing story!

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By Bruce from Oxford , 04 Apr 2005

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    Zhang Yimou (who did Ju Dou later) directed this visually arresting and intriguing 1991 film about a university educated 19-year old woman (Songlian) who is sent to become the fourth wife of a nobleman in China in the 1920s. The movie gives extremely good views of the complex nature of Songlian trying to adjust to a sudden change of life, and the factors surrounding her, such as the 'competition' with the other wives to attract the attention of her husband and a remote palatial home with its own traditions of the years. The film is gorgeous, and for me, a better one than Ju Dou in its complexity and depiction of human interactions. A definite 'must see'.
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  • ever memorable

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By william from Oxford , 27 Jan 2008
    One of the films I actually remember as very good.
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  • Watch more World Cinema

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By a customer from Brighton, East Sussex , 14 Apr 2007
    Look beyond Hollywood dross and embrace World Cinema. There's a whole new dimension of film just waiting for you to find it.

    This is a beautiful sad and dignified film.
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  • Wonderful film

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer from Kent, UK , 21 Jan 2006
    Normally I wouldn't give this kind of movie the time of day. But the plot is uttlerly fascinating. Who will get choosen next and why, intregie, suspense, this has it all.
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  • A visually arresting and intriguing story!

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By Bruce from Oxford , 04 Apr 2005

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    Zhang Yimou (who did Ju Dou later) directed this visually arresting and intriguing 1991 film about a university educated 19-year old woman (Songlian) who is sent to become the fourth wife of a nobleman in China in the 1920s. The movie gives extremely good views of the complex nature of Songlian trying to adjust to a sudden change of life, and the factors surrounding her, such as the 'competition' with the other wives to attract the attention of her husband and a remote palatial home with its own traditions of the years. The film is gorgeous, and for me, a better one than Ju Dou in its complexity and depiction of human interactions. A definite 'must see'.
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