A Brighter Summer Day (Criterion Collection) (3-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 3 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 22, 2016
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Chen Chang & Elaine Jin | |
Directed by | Edward Yang |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 10/10 --
A burning indictment on defining a national identity forged from those left in the dust of modern history.
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The Young Folks
Rating: A --
Here, Yang has erected a temporal experience, a completely immersive world that few artists in any medium could ever hope to do. If you love cinema, you'll love this movie. That's a promise.
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indieWire
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY isn’t so far removed from the ambition and depth of a Tolstoy masterwork....This is a movie you disappear into, getting swallowed by its environmental specificity and the sheer volume of characters, around a hundred of them total.
A.V. Club
You won't relish the thought of spending four hours with Si'r, but A Brighter Summer Day will leave you wanting even more.
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Village Voice
Rating: 4/5 --
A Brighter Summer Day is not for the faint-hearted, yet its rewards are manifold.
CineVue
Rating: 4/5 --
Yang's graceful, naturalistic way of inserting politically fraught signifiers into his characters' hands could teach other film-makers a thing or two.
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Guardian
Yang's methods bring a melancholy tenderness to his recollections. He films intricately staged action in long takes of a rueful, contemplative reserve.
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New Yorker
Product Description:
Edward Yang's fifth picture is a novelistic exploration of the meanings and contradictions of Taiwanese cultural identity. Set in 1960, and based on a true incident weighing heavily on Yang's own youth, the film -- which, in its unedited form, clocks in at just under four hours -- primarily focuses on the life of S'ir, a high school student whose civil servant father was among the millions of Chinese mainlanders who fled to Taipei in the wake of 1949's civil uprisings. In the picture's opening scenes, it is revealed that S'ir is teetering on the brink of academic expulsion; like so many of the film's characters, he is clearly yearning for a stronger sense of belonging, and as a result joins a youth gang, much to the detriment of his life at home and at school. In time, he falls for Ming, a flirtatious girl with domestic troubles of her own; this ill-fated couple's circle of friends also includes Honey, an exiled gang leader, Si'r's best friend Xiao Ma, and Cat, a younger boy obsessed with Elvis Presley. (The lyrics to Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight'," phonetically transcribed by Si'r's older sister, lend the film its title.)
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 25,787
- UPC: 715515170512
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