Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he i...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 1, 2003
Stats: 403 reviews
Although the cinematography does not match his martial-arts fantasies Hero and House of flying daggers this Zhang Yimou film surpasses them all in story and humanity. Beginning with a compulsive gambler losing his house immediately before the communist-nationalist...( read more)
I think it's safe to say that this is no love letter from Zhang Yimou to Chairman Mao. Any time any means of artistic expression must be destroyed, as with the burning of the puppets, you can be sure that the film, itself a form of artistic expression, is not making a positive s...( read more)
Wow. This movie is so full of life and humanity, and hope. The title sums up the basic message of the film, but there is so much more to it. On the surface it seems very similar to Farewell my Concubine, however the message and the portrayal of characters are different. The c...( read more)
Zhang Yimou works his magic again, in bringing to the screen the story of a chinese family and their life throughout some of the most troubled moments in modern chinese history. It begins a few years before the Comunist Revolution, and ends a few years after the Cultural Revoluti...( read more)
To Live was my fourth movie that I have seen from this excellent Chinese director Yimou Zhang.It was beautiful and so real and heart...( read more)
This film describe the Chinese Civil War,According to Yu Hua's novel on film adaptation of the same name, to little people-to-life melodrama style reflects decades of the Chinese people, "Live Is Better Than Live" outlook on life.
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PAN AND SCAN. Épica y emotiva, acaso demasiado emotiva. Logra transmitir el asombro de vivir a través del tiempo y el legado de la memoria, pero acaba apelando a aspectos sensacionalistas de su historia. / Epic and emotional, perhaps too emotional. Succeeds in transmitting the aw...( read more)
Phenomenal! Great story plot that is ultimately endearing. The story centralizes on the ups and downs of a Chinese family. This is one of my absolute favorites among Yimou Zhang's movies. Great performance by Li Gong. Definitely worthy.
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