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Summer Palace
Directed by
Lou Ye
Not Rated
2006
2h 15m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
7.2
72%
59%
7.3
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Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
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Cast of Summer Palace
Hao Lei
Yu Hong
Guo Xiaodong
Zhou Wei
Hu Ling
Li Ti
Zhang Xianmin
Ruo Gu
Cui Lin
Xiao Jun
Chloe Maayan
Dongdong
Bai Xueyun
Wang Bo
Duan Yihong
Tang Caoshi
Lou Ye
Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor
Mei Feng
Screenplay
Ma Yingli
Screenplay
Sylvain Bursztejn
Producer
Nai An
Producer
Helge Albers
Co-Producer
Fang Li
Producer
Liu Weixin
Production Design
Dorothee von Bodelschwingh
Art Direction
Hua Qing
Director Of Photography
Zeng Jian
Editor
Peyman Yazdanian
Original Music Composer
Summer Palace Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
The supporting cast is uniformly fine and excels at creating an emotional spectrum appropriate to the wildly variegated tonalities of Summer Palace's very realistic milieu.
Sin Magazine
Austin Kennedy
Now I don't mind movies that have the pace of a snail, but nothing freakin' happens in this movie. Nothing!
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Though made in 2006, its American release could not have been better timed.
Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It can overwhelm you and puzzle and repel you, sometimes within moments.
Los Angeles CityBeat
Andy Klein
It benefits from a riveting performance by newcomer Hao, but the whole is sadly unsatisfying.
DVDTalk.com
David Cornelius
It falls apart just when it was starting to pull itself together.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
The saying goes "There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college." Who knew that included actually caring about something?
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Search out this vivid film in a theater. Don't let the sacrifices he [Director Lou Ye] made be in vain.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
Mopey-soapy as it sometimes gets, though, this is intelligent, passionate stuff.
L.A. Weekly
Scott Foundas
Like a Tolstoyan epic.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
I still must recommend Summer Palace, especially for the remarkably strong performance by Hao Lei as Yu Hong, the daughter of a shopkeeper in the provinces.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Lou Ye's Summer Palace examines youthful idealism and its unhappy aftermath.
Newsday
John Anderson
In Yu Hong (Hao Lei), the film also has a vibrant heroine.
Village Voice
Julia Wallace
Combines flashes of insight and scintillating cinematography -- grainy, fumbling, light-blinded -- with stretches of inscrutable mediocrity.
The New Yorker
David Denby
In truth, I've never seen so much lovemaking in an aboveground film, but the revelation, and great triumph, of Lou's work is that these scenes are never pornographic -- that is, never separated from emotion.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
With Summer Palace, Lou Ye speaks more plainly in his own voice, tired at last of affecting Wong Kar Wai's florid style of filmmaking, though he is still treading the Wongian terrain of lovelorn melodrama.
Variety
Derek Elley
An occasionally involving but way over-stretched tapestry.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Lou has created a remarkable portrait of a headstrong woman and a generation of Chinese that still finds itself at a crossroads in that country's history.
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