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Plot:
Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. Todd Jacks...( read more 
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MCT:June 18, 2008Nice setting with super enjoyable cinematography . The white-ish view really enjoyable plus the point of view(POV) . POV of rich 'strong' man of that + the poor ex-princess in Shanghai in the worldwar time line really lovely and gripping . But, this movie's story is sort of blurred . The chemistry between Richardson and Fiennes jus right and pure . Fiennes quite dazzled here .
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MCT:April 18, 2008
A Merchant/Ivory film without the much missed Merchant, The White Countess was given an undeserved limited release in 2006 (I had to go to the King's Road to see it- where every other lady seemed to be a white Countess!).
Fiennes goes American, and he plays the most English American of all time. Still, it is a good performance, eliciting Fiennes' sense of concealed bitterness and uneasiness well. He plays a mysterious American who runs a lavish bar in pre-war Shanghai. He accepts all as equal inside this bar, even Japanese Nationalists like Mr Matsuda, with whom he strikes up an unusual friendship. One day he meets one of the many 'girls' who frequent his bar, but she is untypical, a white Russian of noble blood who is supporting her denuded family, washed up on the shores of China due to the Bolshevik Revolution.
It is an interesting situation that never really gets going. Still, it is lovingly told in the way of a favourite novel, containing a host of characters interacting in novel, humanistic ways. Maybe this is because the script is by the Booker winning author Ishiguro. -
MCT:March 26, 2008
One wants to like this, one wants to be impressed, because it is the last Merchant Ivory production the world will ever see. Unfortunately, it's simply not their best. Fiennes is fascinating and Richardson, as always, glows, but this does not capture the senses in the way that "Remains of the Day" or "Howard's End" did. A good picture, but not a great one.
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MCT:March 4, 2008Great relationship between Fiennes & Richardson were fantastically romantic... Great feel good movie... Good portrayal of family betrayal & friendships... Good demonstration of immigrants starting over from the bottom in their new country...
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MCT:March 4, 2008
While not perfect I was won over by the performances of Fiennes and Richardson. I cared and rooted for their characters, hence a thumbs up.
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