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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."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

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OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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