Word: chen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STARRING: Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian DIRECTOR: Chen Kaige OPENS: Dec. 17 in N.Y.C.and L.A.; wide...
...Hollywood these days, a spectacle is what some randy star makes of himself at 3 a.m. on Sunset Boulevard. American movies have lost the love of grandeur, of finding the heroic scale of historical figures. Chen Kaige to the rescue! China's longest-reigning angry young filmmaker has an eye for rapturous compositions on a huge and telling tapestry. His new film mixes DeMille and Dostoyevsky: the cast-of-thousands splendor of a biblical epic and the gnarled psychology of Chen's own Farewell My Concubine. And all in less time than a Stephen King prison drama...
...those unfamiliar with Chinese history, but never mind. Just pay heed to the glorious moviemaking. There is one scene that haunts the heart: an ethereally beautiful blind girl (Xun Zhou) kills herself after the assassin has eradicated the rest of her family. Few directors can create such indelible imagery; Chen does it in nearly every frame...
Produced by Flora Kao '00, Jaynie Chen '02, Carey...
...taxes," Chen said. "I think it's wrong that [crimes] happen here so often...