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Dominican Rep. Summer Palace
- Original title
- Yihe yuan (Summer Palace)
- Year
- 2006
- Running time
- 140 min.
- Country
China- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production China-France;
- Genre
- Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. 1980s. Historical
- Synopsis
- Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Protests collapse, and Yu and Zhou lose each other amidst the social chaos and panicked crowds. Zhou Wei is sent to a summer military camp, and on his release moves to Berlin, fleeing both his country and memories of Yu. She finds a job, a lover, but can not forget Zhou. In Germany, social unrest is mounting: calls for freedom, demonstrations for democracy. A familiar story for Zhou. Weary, still haunted by Yu, he returns to China as the Berlin Wall crashes down. He finds her at last, in a small town. From evening to dawn, their future stretches before them, two changed souls in a changed world.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2006: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)
- Critics' reviews
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"Jolting narrative ellipses sometimes threatens to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down. What never lessens is the movie's rapturous eroticism, and the exquisite longing in each one of Yu Hong's sideways glances"
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"Fourth feature by Mainland helmer Lou Ye shoots for metaphysical drama but ends up saying very little beneath all the poetic voiceovers, sexual encounters and political seasoning."
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"Lou's mobile camera captures the flushed energy of the faces and bodies of beautiful youths in love with all the verve and commitment of the early French New Wave."
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"At the heart of the film is a powerful performance by the beautiful and most promising Hao Lei as its tempestuous, complex heroine."
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