As a film that is ambitious in scope and grand in its design, Farewell My Concubine fittingly and successfully conveys the art of opera in all its own distinct pageantry and spectacle... It's a wonderful movie, a heartfelt epic and a studied ode to a particular profession. It is a magnificently visual film as well, with detailed and elaborate set-pieces heightened by a unified interplay of sights and sounds, color and music.