Word: gongli
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Fans of Chinese film rejoice: Gong Li is back. Star of the mainland-Chinese classic Raise the Red Lantern, Gong Li took a break from acting to live as a housewife in Singapore for the past few years. But with the contemporary drama Zhou Yu's Train, she returns to the screen in a familiar role: the dreamy, ethereal beauty drowning in doomed love. Gong Li's sculpted cheekbones and anguished eyes are up to the task, but the self-conscious Zhou Yu's Train never quite manages to pull out of the station...
...Gong Li plays Zhou Yu, a young artist. On a business trip to the city of Chongyang, Zhou meets the shy poet Chen Ching, played by Tony Leung Ka-fai (the other Tony Leung). Chen falls in love with Zhou because, well, she's played by Gong Li, and Zhou falls in love with Chen because he's a sensitive poet. Zhou travels twice a week by train to meet Chen, who rarely leaves his library. Zhou spends so much time on the train that the sound of the wheels and the spinning scenery dominate her memories; director Sun Zhou...
...Unfortunately, Sun decides to turn what could have been a pleasant love story into a perplexing meditation on identity, reality and commuting. At times Zhou Yu's Train feels like a parody of an art film, complete with slow-motion shots of a melancholy Gong Li. Not even the charming presence of Sun Hong-Lei as a love-struck veterinarian who tries to persuade Zhou to dismount her iron horse can save the film's stalled second act. It's good to have Gong Li back, but here's hoping her next director stays on track. Anyone know what Zhang...
...just so happy that people might think I wrote that line," Barris says. When asked if he feels that way--that his life was ultimately one of wasted opportunity, of empty hucksterism signifying nothing--he doesn't pause: "Are you kidding? The Gong Show was the four best years of my life...
...does read the paper, in particular the articles that are once again being written about him, and he still cringes at the phrase "king of schlock." He is only slightly bothered that the cultural hand-wringing over his shows has been made moot by the Gong Show-izing of television. "The moral is, Hang in there because things are going to change," he says. Then he rethinks. "I tried to write an epilogue, and I came up empty. The only moral I came up with is, There is no moral...