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...still get a sense of the ancient rhythms of daily life, pictured. Then, head to dinner at a tiny, authentic Shanghainese restaurant called Chun (Spring) on Jinxian Road in the historic French Concession. Two ordering musts: the braised fatty pork and the glutinous rice balls in a sweet wine broth. To finish the evening, check out modern Shanghai at a hot new bar called Mimosa, located on the south bank of Suzhou Creek...
...ancient rhythms of daily life. Then, head to dinner at a tiny, authentic Shanghainese restaurant called Chun (Spring) on Jinxian Road in the historic [an error occurred while processing this directive] French Concession. Two ordering musts: the braised fatty pork and the glutinous rice balls in a sweet wine broth. To finish the evening, check out modern Shanghai at a hot new bar called Mimosa, located on the south bank of Suzhou Creek. HAN FENG, Shanghai and New York City?based fashion designer Lounge on an opium bed at Face Bar, a renovated 1930s-era villa in central Shanghai, where...
...Austrian girl who became the last Queen of France. Coppola's conceit is to reconceive the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics rushing to its defense. Their gallantry was sweet but ill-conceived, for this lame satire is both a parody of emotional emptiness and an excruciating example of it. Such was the desperation of critics to manufacture a cause d'estime, in a festival short on both controversy and content. It's best to see this session as a holding...
...splendor of aristocratic excess, aided artfully by the work of production designer KK Barrett and costume designer Milena Canonero. The quiet riot of pastels and ruffles hint at Marie's isolation from the shouts of revolution in the Paris streets. Dunst is a living porcelain doll, dimpled and sweet. Her Marie may be ignorant of the great roiling world outside, but her job was not to be spokeswoman for the masses. It was to provide a male heir for the throne...
...uniforms of state organizations, swill Little Red Riding Hood sparkling wine and dance to ballads like In the East, which sold 300,000 copies a few years ago. This phenomenon of nostalgia for the lost east, dubbed Ostalgie, was neatly encapsulated in the 2003 hit film Goodbye Lenin!, a sweet-tempered comedy about a son who protects the feelings of his ailing mother by pretending the Wall is still standing and the G.D.R. is intact. That may be an amusing concept for most cinemagoers. For many east Germans, struggling to find their feet in the new realities of a reunited...