TIFF 2012. Toronto Notes: Stephen Fung's "Tai Chi 0" and Lu Chuan's "The Last Supper"
Marie-Pierre DuhamelNotes on two big budgeted Chinese films: a _wuxia_’s new tricks from old fiction, and a critical mainstream film by Lu Chuan.
Notes on two big budgeted Chinese films: a _wuxia_’s new tricks from old fiction, and a critical mainstream film by Lu Chuan.
Followups to The Housemaid and City of Life and Death.
"Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death has the title and the feel of a monument," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. "This widescreen, austerely monochromatic, two-hour-plus collective drama — depicting
World War 2 and Holocaust films are these days so prevalent that controversy carries more weight as habitual kneejerk reaction than a serious complaint about representation of the past (see, for instance