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...brighter or more resourceful than they; she breaks and loses things. In a cynical reading of the tale, she might be a political functionary in the vast Chinese bureaucracy, fighting small battles to achieve obscure goals. That also seems the case with Zhang, director of the classics Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, who has been drifting artistically since he and his leading lady, Gong Li, split five years ago. To Western eyes, this meandering parable registers as a perplexity and a disappointment...
When the woman assaulted by Dou- glas first reported her attack, she says shequickly realized that UHS officials were notsufficiently trained to help...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle Theatre. 40Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "Ju Dou" at4 and 8 p.m. and "The Story of Qiu Ju" at 6 and9:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 20. "An UnforgettableSummer" at 4"30, 6:15, 8 and 9:40 p.m. formFriday, April 21 to Tuesday, April 25 with weekendmatinees at 1 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. BostonInternational Festival of Women's Cinema fromWednesday, April 26 to Thursday...
Zhang Yimou is prone to relying on visual gimmicks. Whether it was the wine in "Red Sorghum", the lanterns in "Raise the Red Lantern" or the dyed fabric in "Ju Dou," his cinematic crutch is obvious and sometimes self-defeating--it forces the viewer into visual overload. "To Live" is a happy exception...
...roundup of best directors' next-best films. The Chinese master Zhang Yimou sent To Live; the film, which spans 30 years of Maoist hard times, is beautifully observed and performed (the male lead, Ge You, won the Best Actor prize), but lacks the fiery power of Zhang's Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern. Nikita Mikhalkov intended his Burned by the Sun as a Russian Gone With the Wind, a story of country life amid the turmoil of tyranny, but it was meandering and cloying. As for Patrice Chereau's Queen Margot, an epic melodrama set in Huguenot times...