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Raise the Red Lantern
Directed by
Zhang Yimou
PG
1991
2h 5m
Drama
,
Romance
8.1
97%
94%
7.9
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A young woman becomes the fourth concubine of a wealthy man and soon realizes there's fierce competition for his attention and the associated privileges.
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Cast of Raise the Red Lantern
Gong Li
Songlian
He Saifei
Meishan
Cao Cuifen
Zhuoyun
Kong Lin
Yan'er
Zhao Qi
Housekeeper
Jin Shuyuan
Yuru
Ma Jingwu
Chen Zuoqian
Cui Zhigang
Doctor Gao
Chu Xiao
Feipu
Cao Zengyin
Old Servant
Ding Weimin
Songlian's Mother
Zhang Yimou
Director
Su Tong
Novel
Ni Zhen
Writer
Wenze Zhang
Executive Producer
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Executive Producer
Yau Fook-Sang
Producer
Cao Juiping
Art Direction
Lun Yang
Director Of Photography
Zhao Fei
Director Of Photography
Raise the Red Lantern Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ted Shen
Zhang seems to suggest, the price for rebellion and transgression is still death or madness.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
In Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang Yimou's most widely acclaimed film, the Chinese director portrays life as a series of performative gestures under the duress of cultural tradition, prescribed gender roles, and hierarchical power structures.
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
The feminist anthem here is a subtle wisp bolstered by sumptuousness, Zhang's masterful composition and Gong.
Hartford Courant
Malcolm Johnson
This incomparably handsome film quickens and darkens into a fascinating drama of sexual politics in a time when women were little more than pampered prisoners.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
With its beautiful look and haunting themes and sublime performances, Raise The Red Lantern is Yimou's master work.
Village Voice
Rob Nelson
Visually ravishing and emotionally cold, Zhang's third feature is one long series of pushes and pulls.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
One of Yimou's two or three masterpieces, this visually stunning film offers an extraordinary view of gender, sexuality, female rivalry and bonding in a historical context (1920s China) that bears some political relevance to the present time.
DVDJournal.com
Betsy Bozdech
A haunting, contemplative study of man's inhumanity to man (or, in this case, woman's inhumanity to woman), as well as the restrictions and feudal intricacies of Chinese society.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
A beautifully crafted and richly detailed feat of consciousness-raising and a serious drama with the verve of a good soap opera.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Gong Li delivers a performance of exquisite expressiveness that, like the film itself, is unnerving in its emotional nakedness.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A Chinese film of voluptuous physical beauty and angry passions.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Raise the Red Lantern is like some exotic hothouse specimen that's beautiful to the eye yet caustic to the touch.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
The story never amounts to much more than a rather tepid Chinese rendition of The Women.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In purely aesthetic terms, Raise the Red Lantern is breathtaking.
Film.com
John Hartl
A near-perfect movie that often recalls the visual purity and intensity of silent films.
Entertainment Weekly
The movie invites us to share a life in which all emotional desire has been bound, subjugated, organized into a bleakly funny -- and finally tragic -- game.
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