Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia (Curse of the Golden Flower)

Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia (Curse of the Golden Flower)

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Dahong Ni, Jay Chou, Li Gong, Ye Liu, Chow Yun Fat

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, inclu...( read more  read more... )ding the royal family itself.

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  • October 1, 2009
    It?s no House of flying daggers but stick with it and this film gets good.
  • August 11, 2009
    no surprise dat da film would be beautiful. pretty fucked up doh.
  • June 26, 2009
    Wow, what a visually amazing work of cinematography. And talk about your proverbial cast of thousands. The climactic battle scene is just beyond epic. I don't think I've ever seen war portrayed quite this way. A very fluid mass of humanity pours across the screen, like two li...( read more)quids, oil and water maybe, jockeying for position.

    I love both Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li, and they do not disappoint as the two heavyweight fighters exchanging power punches in a battle of wills. Love and hate, jealousy, intrigue, poisoning, murder, incest, fratricide -- this is Greek tragedy, this is Shakespeare, this is all kinds of hallmark tragic traditions rolled into one pretty tight script. Definitely worth seeing.

  • January 22, 2009
    The Curse Of The Golden Flower is a historical epic starring Chow Yun-Fat as a Chinese emperor who rules both his lands and family with an iron fist. A plot to assassinate his empress results in an attempted coup to wrest power from his grasp. This story has a lot of potential fo...( read more)r political machinations, scheming and the kind of epic, heroic battles you'd expect from Zhang Yimou. The costumes and sets are of a scale and splendour it is impossible to ignore and his eye for aesthetic beauty is as evident as ever. But it seemed to me that the actors had been demoted to nothing more than elaborate mannequins on which to hang these incredible creations, arranged to make the most attractively composed images, rather than to facilitate the narrative or create empathy or even interest for the viewer. The characters and their relationships are barely fleshed out, and I never felt I'd got to know any of them or their personal motivations at all. Gong Li is the only one to wrest any screen time away from her sumptuous surroundings and she was always fighting a losing battle for attention with her quite hypnotic cleavage. I think Zhang was trying to create a Shakespearean tragedy, but his eye was so unwaveringly concerned with the style of the film rather than the substance, the result is little more than a collection of pretty pictures.
  • December 30, 2008
    This story makes some of Shakespeare's more bloddy works, seem like a Harlequin romance novel!

    Murder, intrigue, deceit and treachery abound in this visually stunning film.

    You need only look at the cast to get a feel for what awaits you. But nothing can prepare you for ...( read more)the beauty of the sets and costumes that will overwhelm your senses.

    Be forwarned that while there are some great fight scenes and excellent special effects...that is not the main focus of this film. It is first and foremost a powerful character drama.
  • December 5, 2009
    Very Bloody Movie =O. I'm really surprised this movie is talking about "Family Betrayal."
  • November 22, 2009
    this story line is intense,must watch!
  • November 18, 2009
    The great story about how a son loved his mother so much, and will doing anything for her happiness. It's also shown how brutal a king can be, including trying to kill his both wives. Well, the power of an authority could blinded the eyes of a man or in this movie, three man. Th...( read more)e King, the second son, and the third-idiot son Great movie!!!
  • November 17, 2009
    terdengar kabar klo di film china termahal pada thun pembuatannya. mg keren see filmnya ...
  • November 15, 2009
    The most beautiful sets I have ever seen.

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