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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2019 21:42:05 GMT
It opens today in the US - it's probably the first film I'm really looking forward to this year. Reviews have been nothing short of rapturous - Zhang, one of the world's most legendary working auteurs, seems to have fully returned to form.
Are you going to see it when it comes to your area?
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2019 21:43:51 GMT
Definitely, looks cool.
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Post by Sharbs on May 3, 2019 21:51:59 GMT
I saw it at the MSPIFF a few weeks back. It's fine, I don't know if Zhang is my thing as this was my first of his that I have seen. It was a weird mix of grounded silliness that didn't exactly work for me. Again, don't know if that's par for Zhang's course.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2019 21:54:41 GMT
I saw it at the MSPIFF a few weeks back. It's fine, I don't know if Zhang is my thing as this was my first of his that I have seen. It was a weird mix of gounded silliness that didn't exactly work for me. Again, don't know if that's par for Zhang's course. is one of the absolute best films of the 90s (of all time, really) - Gong Li is legendary in it. I can link you if you'd like.  |
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Post by stabcaesar on May 3, 2019 22:29:18 GMT
Looks typically ZYM: style over substance, and that style isn't even that good.
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Post by JangoB on May 3, 2019 22:56:46 GMT
It's wonderful! One of my favorites of 2018. The visual stylings here are just astounding with the black and white color palette both being an extraordinary aesthetic choice and underlining the thematic content of the story in an excellent way. I actually think it's among Zhang's very best films.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 3, 2019 23:14:24 GMT
I enjoyed it for the most part when I caught it a few months back (there was an HQ version online with English subs last fall and I feel like nobody noticed). I dug the dreary washed-out black and white palette (have any other wuxia films looked like this one?) and the political intrigue of the story, especially in the last scene which was absolutely riveting. The choreography was as exceptional as ever. You could really feel the blows, buuuuut those spinning umbrella things were campy as hell. I know there's usually an element of camp to this genre, but the concept makes no sense to me. It looks bad, it looks boring, it doesn't look in any way realistic and it weakens any of the action pieces that include them. Surely it wouldn't have been hard to come up with something else because it's not like they were intrinsic to the plot or the theme or anything. Just a bad idea.
Overall I'd probably give it a 7/10
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Post by Sharbs on May 3, 2019 23:21:48 GMT
I saw it at the MSPIFF a few weeks back. It's fine, I don't know if Zhang is my thing as this was my first of his that I have seen. It was a weird mix of gounded silliness that didn't exactly work for me. Again, don't know if that's par for Zhang's course. is one of the absolute best films of the 90s (of all time, really) - Gong Li is legendary in it. I can link you if you'd like. um duh , that's high on my watchlist! |
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Post by themoviesinner on May 4, 2019 4:21:00 GMT
It's one of my favourite films of 2018. It has an interesting story, spectacular cinematography and I think it is Yimou's best film since Hero.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 30, 2019 1:42:06 GMT
COURT INTRIGUE! UMBRELLAS SWORDS! BATMAN! How can anyone not love this?
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