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Nathan Deming
25Oct11
What a strangely beautiful movie. I found it very hard to follow the story lines, and I was often bored (what a superficial complaint!) but some beautiful moments.
Joel
15Jul10
I really really struggled to engage in this film. Although a few scenes were filled with quite some possibilities, I failed to really be pulled in by the characters and issues. I felt truly like I was watching a foreign film in the sense that I felt I was outside of the world in which this film made sense. The trailer caught my attention, and the concept appealing, but I was left lost wandering it's frames.
sharunasbresson
12Mar10
find a place worth filming and build up a film around it. what a wonderful way to make cinema! Still life being an even better example.
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Jerry Johnson
3Mar10
Given his first big budget, Jia dutifully veers to melodrama. I don't think the two big melodrama events actually work (both feel strangely out of place), but I loved the deliriousness of Jia's "bigger" palate (the moving camera, the lighting of broad swaths of night, the transitional music, the musical numbers).
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Paul Johnson
2Feb10
Free floating melancholia and prettiness mixed with unexpected bursts of whimsy and humor in a movie that attempts to make a big statement about The State of the World as unobtrusively and unpretentiously as possible given the aims. In other words, exactly my kind of thing, though the ending's a bit of a kick in the gut, and not in a good way.
Crap Monster
7Feb09
Saw this in a Chinese film class back in undergrad as our course-ending film, and found it quite fitting. Nice post-modern examination towards an ambiguous future of an increasingly urbanizing & globalizing China.