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Movie Overview
Cast
Lei Hao
Xiaodong Guo
Ling Hu
Director
Ye Lou
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Summer Palace (2008)
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OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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3.5/5
"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?"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
2.5/5
"It falls apart just when it was starting to pull itself together."
DVDTalk.com
David Cornelius
3/4
"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."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
3/5
"A torrid sexual romance between two students at Beijing University set against the backdrop of changes simmering in China in 1989."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
B
"Its love story only serves as an allegory for its politics. While it might be an effective metaphor on paper, the love story is never quite credible enough to carry the symbolic weight Lou thrusts on it."
Cinepinion
Henry Stewart
"Way too long for something with this little content."
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Jon Popick
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