Chinese Box
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 9, 2003
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gong Li & Jeremy Irons | |
Performer: | Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui & Rubén Blades | |
Directed by | Wayne Wang | |
Edited by | Christopher Tellefsen | |
Screenwriting by | Larry Gross | |
Composition by | Graeme Revell | |
Produced by | Jean-Louis Piel, Lydia Dean Pilcher & Wayne Wang | |
Director of Photography: | Vilko Filac |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
I have always been drawn toward stories of exile and expatriation, of people living as strangers in strange lands. I enjoy their bittersweet longing for other places and other friends.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...[A] poetically resonant movie....The film's lyrical sweep and refined performances ensure that its elegiac echoes linger long after the final credits have rolled...
New York Times
...The film pays tremendous -- and redeeming -- attention to nuance and detail....Sophisticated, ironic and highly complex...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/4 --
The obvious passion that Wang has for his homeland does not visibly extend his two tortured lovers.
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TheMovieReport.com
Wang is moving toward a clearer objectivity.
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Film Journal International
Product Description:
Hong Kong-born American director Wayne Wang returned to the city in 1990 to make the gritty street-level thriller LIFE IS CHEAP...BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE. In 1997, with the city on the verge of the British handing the colony back to the Chinese, he returned for a different look. In CHINESE BOX, Jeremy Irons plays John, an English journalist moving among the Chinese business elite and British officials at expensive nightclubs. However, the politics of transition are seen through the prism of his personal relationships. He is in love with Vivian (Gong Li), a woman he meets in Beijing who's now working at a club owned by Chang (Michael Hui), the man she wants to marry. But Chang wants to become respectable and won't marry her because of her checkered past. After a personal crisis, John goes out with a camcorder to capture images of the last days of British rule. He becomes fascinated by Jean, a mysterious woman who hides half her face behind a scarf as she darts through the streets aggressively selling strange items. Played with a manic verve by martial arts star Maggie Cheung, Jean comes to represent everything that is strange and enigmatic about Hong Kong. Taken from a story by Paul Theroux and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel, CHINESE BOX is a thoughtful, realistic blend of individual lives set against a large historical backdrop.
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Product Info
- UPC: 031398831723
- Shipping Weight: 0.31/lbs (approx)
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