English title: Summer Palace.
A young woman quits her small town to attend the university in Beijing. There she meets people and falls deeply in love.
Slightly annoying at points, basically because it is impossible to empathize with or even understand very well the main character, and also because of the amount of sex scenes which don't seem to add anything at all to the flow of the story or to the understanding of the characters. It appears that they were striving for a mix of Les amants réguliers and Dr. Zhivago, or something like that. It is mostly well directed and well acted, but there is little concern from the filmmaker to make these characters' personal ordeals accessible to us. The movie seems more interested in exploring the romantic angle, and the other dimensions of the drama (especially the political one) are subordinated to the romantic one.
Rating: 45
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