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Written by Mark People and Bernardo Bertolucci...
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci At the USA/Charles...
...this is not an outtake from one of Calvin Klein's erotic "Obsession" commercials or a Duran Duran video. This luscious footage comes direct from Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film, The Last Emperor...
...Emperor's day, Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris) would surely not have obtained a passport to visit the Forbidden City, let alone explore its ruler's forbidden soul. Last year, though, the director received free range of both from Pu Yi's successors, who regard his final, harmless-dodderer incarnation as an exemplary triumph for their system. The result is a film epic in length (almost three hours), vision (the reimagining of a lost and exotic world) and imagery (formal and glowing). Yet at its center is an anti-epic figure, inarticulate and victimized. The movie must...
...Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci roams through Beijing' s Forbidden City and creates a ravishing, brooding antiepic...